Coldwater by Samuel Parker

Author:Samuel Parker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Suspense;Suspense fiction;Christian fiction;FIC030000;FIC031070
ISBN: 9781493412549
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2017-10-10T04:00:00+00:00

forty

THE WOODS BLENDED TOGETHER in a constant cacophony of color as Haywood, Clinton, and Davis crisscrossed the north roads and service trails. They would stop occasionally, get out of the SUV, and fix their eyes on the landscape, looking for movement amongst the sedentary trees. The sun was high in the sky and the day seemed to have no end.

This particular stop placed them on a rise that gave a bird’s-eye view of the world south and east. Clinton stood to the right of Haywood and cast a shadow from his giant frame. Davis leaned against the vehicle, his constant stream of nicotine going full bore, tainting the air with a thin tang of bitterness.

“How long we going to be out here?” he asked between puffs.

“Why, you almost out of smokes?” Haywood said, not bothering to look back at the human chimney.

Clinton eyed his friend, who simply shrugged his shoulders and proceeded to ignore his comrades.

“He could be hunkered down anywhere,” Clinton said. “Chances of us tripping across him are pretty slim.”

“He’s out there.”

“That he is, but out there’s a pretty big place.”

“That boy’s dugout was almost straight north of where James and Kyle were found.”

“That gives him three ways to go. Doubt he’d double back toward town.”

“Yeah,” Haywood said. “Then how come I got this nagging feeling that is exactly what he is going to do? He ain’t going to keep heading north. He wouldn’t survive out here very long.”

Clinton nodded, his cold stare looking toward where the earth met the sky.

“East. He’d head east. Toward the interstate.”

“That’s a long walk. Through the woods, take him a week,” Clinton said. “Could be taking the long way back to his place.”

“Most likely. That’s why I told Frank and Earl to stake out the place.”

Clinton chuckled. “So that’s where you sent them two.”

“Couldn’t stand Earl’s crying no more.”

“He’s not cut out for this. Frank neither. Should have left them and Kyle out of it,” Clinton said. “James too.”

“Couldn’t keep James away,” Haywood said.

“He sure was fired up, wasn’t he?”

Haywood nodded. He turned and saw Davis walk over across the dirt two-track and begin to relieve himself on an unsuspecting tree.

“Davis seems not to be bothered.”

Clinton smiled. “Not sure he gives two cents either way.”

“And what about you?”

“What about me?”

“You wish you had been left out of this?”

“Don’t matter anymore. No use regretting it.”

“That all you got?”

“I think we should have let Michael be, if that’s what you want me to say. I know you’re trying to even the score on account of Morrison. But Morse was poking a hornet’s nest with Michael from the beginning. Not to say that he had it coming, no way I’m saying that. But ever since Michael came back, you guys been thinking the worst of him. I figured he done his time. Leave him be. But now . . .”

“But now what?”

“Now, whatever I thought before don’t matter. We finish what we started.” Clinton looked at Haywood, his face fixed with firm determination. “This ain’t something you quit halfway through.

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