Deadly Silence by Stone Mary

Author:Stone, Mary [Stone, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Suspense
Amazon: B081QCC5LR
Goodreads: 48903926
Publisher: Mary Stone Publishing
Published: 2019-11-23T08:00:00+00:00

12

Kylie woke up with a start, after a dream that had doctors with probes reaching into her stomach and yanking her baby away from her. In it, the doctors had their faces covered with masks, and a bright light was shining down, practically blinding her. She’d managed to shove them away and rip off one of the masks, only to recognize the face as Linc’s.

When she’d woken up, her heart was pounding in her chest.

She found herself down in the living room, covered with a blanket with six dog faces staring at her. She remembered leaving Southern Hills Child Welfare and getting into her car, going home, talking to Linc briefly, then…

Then…nothing. She must’ve fallen asleep.

Rubbing her head, she sat up, smelling fresh-brewed coffee and toast. It smelled kind of odd, almost rancid, but she’d noticed everything smelled differently now. As bad as it smelled, she still wanted coffee. She stood up, realizing she was still wearing yesterday’s clothes, and as she straightened, felt a screaming pain rocket up the side of her back. Grabbing it, she massaged the muscles, but as she stood, she realized she couldn’t fully straighten.

Was this that round ligament pain she’d read about on the Babycenter website? And if so, why was it coming so early? She thought it was supposed to happen later.

She walked like an old, hunched lady to the kitchen. “I pulled a muscle,” she muttered to Linc, who was chewing on a piece of toast and paging through his phone.

“Yeah? I probably shouldn’t have let you sleep on the couch,” he said, studying her as she tried to stretch, wincing as she straightened a millimeter at a time. “I tried to get you to come up, but you were dead to the world.”

Still rubbing her back, she poured herself a cup of coffee. Lifting it to her lips and blowing, she squinted to see the time on the microwave. Slowly, the blurred numbers came into focus. It was ten o’clock.

“Holy shit! Is that the time?”

Linc nodded.

She set her mug on the counter without ever having taken a sip. “Shit! My appointment is at eleven!”

Somehow the panic wound up overshadowing the pain in her back, because she flew up the stairs, took a quick shower, shaving her legs the best she could, and threw on a dress and sandals. She tied her wet hair up in a bun and ran for the door.

“Wait. Where are you—” Linc was saying as the screen door slammed behind her. She didn’t wait around, because she knew anything she said to him would be a lie, and she’d much rather just avoid the question.

But Linc was on her tail. It was only when she got to the Jeep door that she realized she’d left her keys in the house. He followed her, holding them up.

“Is this for Elise’s case?” he asked as she snatched them away.

She shook her head.

“Everything okay?”

Kylie nodded and blurted. “Of course. I’m just going to go and…have lunch with my mom. You know how crazy she gets when I’m late.

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