Darkness Rising by Lis Wiehl & Pete Nelson

Author:Lis Wiehl & Pete Nelson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery, Fantasy, Romance, Suspense
ISBN: 9781595549433
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2012-10-02T05:00:00+00:00

20.

Tommy’s cell phone rang on the way to his house at the wheel of his Aunt Ruth’s car. He’d retrieve his motorcycle tomorrow, when he met the glass repairman at her house.

The director of the wolf sanctuary was on the other end, asking him again for the location of the deer carcass he’d reported. When Tommy told her, the woman said they’d scoured the exact area he’d described and found nothing.

“Maybe someone from the county or the local police already picked it up,” he suggested.

“I’ve already checked with everyone I could think of. No one’s seen it.”

“Maybe some of the local wild wolves got to it first,” Tommy joked.

When the director told him that the man she’d sent had indeed seen tracks in the dirt on the shoulder of the road, but nothing he could identify, Tommy told her to make sure the gates were locked, because you never knew what might be lurking in the shadows.

She laughed. He didn’t.

Tommy carried his aunt’s bags into his kitchen, re-armed his security system, and then put her things in his father’s room.

When he returned, he watched with a mix of awe and admiration as she tended to her weapons, checked the safeties, reloaded, wiped them down thoroughly with a soft dish towel, and set them carefully on the food island. All the way to Tommy’s house, she’d listened as he told her how the investigation into Amos Kasden and the murder of Julie Leonard had led them down a path that was, to say the least, unexpected, but one that was clearer with each passing day. She asked questions when she didn’t understand something, but not for a moment did she express any doubt as to his interpretation of events. As he had parked her car in the courtyard, he asked her if she thought he was crazy to be talking about chasing demons.

“Thomas,” she said, “when I was younger, I was like most young people—I thought I knew all the answers. Then I thought I knew the questions but not the answers. I stopped going to church for a few years when I realized I didn’t even know the questions. But I came back when I realized that even if I didn’t know the questions or the answers, Jesus does, and he’d give them to me when I needed them. I don’t think you’re crazy. I think you’d be foolish not to believe what you believe.”

She was puzzled, though, by one thing: why had Abbie suggested that she, Ruth, was “the boy’s best chance”?

“I can look things up in books, but anybody can do that,” she said. “Why would she single me out? Assuming Ben was right in the first place.”

“Ben knows things,” Tommy said. “I’m not sure how, but he does.”

He’d set his aunt’s key chain on the food island, next to the strawberryrhubarb pie she’d had the presence of mind to grab in case she couldn’t get back into her kitchen before Thanksgiving. She promised to make Tommy his favorite, pecan pie, and a traditional pumpkin too, if she had time tomorrow.

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