Dark Horses by Wayne Kyle Spitzer

Author:Wayne Kyle Spitzer
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Hobb's End Books
Published: 2020-08-03T00:00:00+00:00

“MY NAME IS COLONEL Rodale. Mr. Watson, you need to tell us everything you know about your wife’s plans. What’s she up to?” The colonel’s mustache twitched as he waited.

I stared at him wide-eyed.

“Are you involved in this?” He bent over the small table and glared at me.

“What? No, sir,” I blubbered. “I just returned home from Los Angeles. The last time I spoke to my wife was this morning.”

“And did she tell you about her plans to abduct the giraffe?”

“No, she was just taking the kids to the zoo. My wife would never...” I glanced down at the tablet which showed that clearly my wife had and shut up.

“You know I will listen to every phone call you’ve ever made for the last ten years, right? Read every text message?” He raised an eyebrow at me. “Lying to me won’t work. In fact, teams have already started.”

Oh, god. That was going to be embarrassing.

“The last time I spoke to her was this morning. She was taking the kids to the zoo. That’s all I know. I can’t explain all—” I waved my hand into the air as I attempted to illustrate the point.

“Col. Rodale, Sir.” A beefy blonde man held up the tablet with the drone footage of my living room. “She appears to be doing something.”

“What?”

“She’s talking to the giraffe.”

“Let me see that!” He didn’t wait for the man to hand it to him, just reached over and grabbed the tablet.

We all were able to see the screen. The giraffe’s long neck was bent down, my wife’s hands cupped around the side of its face. Her lips moved. We couldn’t hear what she said, but I recognized the movement her lips made as she finished speaking. “I love you.”

My eyes jumped to the colonel’s face to see if he or anyone else had caught it. Sooner or later some linguist reviewing the footage would see it.

“She just told the giraffe she loved it,” I told them. My stomach churning.

The colonel glanced up, the right side of his mustache trembling, eye’s narrowing. He looked back down and tilted the screen away, but before he did, I swear I saw the giraffe’s lips moving.

“Get them out of here,” the colonel barked to the men in the suits.

“Wait,” I cried. “She’s my wife. Please. I want to know what’s going on just as much as you do.”

“You don’t have the proper clearance to know.”

“Please, sir?”

He continued staring at the screen, holding a finger up to hush me, but telling the men who rushed to remove me to wait just a moment.

“Can you read your wife’s lips?”

“Yeah, sometimes.” That was mostly a lie, but I’d say anything to be able to stay there and find out what was going on. “She has a beautiful smile, so when I’m with her, I watch for it. I watch her mouth move.”

He glared then turned the screen back so I could see it. “What’s she saying now?”

I watched as she resumed speaking to the giraffe.

“Um, let’s see.

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