Dark the Night: A Speculative Thriller by Bryan Ackerman

Author:Bryan Ackerman [Ackerman, Bryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-08-12T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 30

I’ve been wearing the same clothes for two days. I go home to make myself dinner, shower, and start packing. I don’t know how long I’ll be gone to Boston. I pack as light as I can but enough for a few days. If I need anything more then I’ll buy it.

I realize that I don’t have any little girl’s clothes. I don’t have a room made up for Morgan. I have so much that I need to do to prepare for her but I don’t have the time if I am to rescue her, even though I don’t have any idea of what I’m doing or have a plan.

Is that what I’m doing? Planning a rescue? What makes me think that I can possibly accomplish this? I’m not a criminal mastermind. I can’t just break people out of places. As Sawyer pointed out, I can’t even do simple spy stuff.

Is this really wise? Kyle is right. If we are going to try to pull off something like this, then we need a good plan. I’m not balking at freeing my daughter. I am set on that. The only reason that I am hesitant is because I realize that I have no idea what I’m doing or how I can accomplish something like this. I don’t even really know what I am getting myself into. I believe that I only have a glimpse with what Chris was involved.

My phone rings. I glance out the window. The fading dusk light shines above the trees. I answer the phone excitedly, hoping the caller is who I think it is.

“Hello.”

“Ashley, this is John. The cemetery caretaker.”

I really am not good at this spy stuff. I had lacked the foresight to even find out something as important as the caretaker’s name. I had no idea that his name is John.

“Did you open the coffin?”

“I did.”

“Is there anything inside?”

“It’s empty as we suspected.”

“You didn’t find what my husband left me?”

“I don’t see anything in there but it might be under the fabric. I didn’t go down into the coffin. I figured that you would want to be here for that.”

“Are you at his grave now?”

“I sure am. I’m shining my flashlight down into it as we speak. I unlocked the east gate of the cemetery and left it open for you. All the others are locked.”

“I’ll be right there.”

I hang up, grab my suitcase, and lock up the house. What if somebody already retrieved what Chris left for me? John said that government agents were alone with the coffin. Could they have found it? They probably didn’t suspect anything since they were just retrieving him.

I feel guilty for putting Kyle’s life in danger. Me being in danger is one thing, but to ask something so perilous of someone else goes against everything I believe. If I could do this without him, I would. Would Naomi be as kind to me if she knew what I have asked of him? Would she ever forgive me if something were to happen to her husband?

I need to be more cautious.

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