EDEN by Dean Crawford

Author:Dean Crawford [Crawford, Dean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: adventure, Thriller, action
Publisher: Fictum Ltd
Published: 2013-07-24T07:00:00+00:00

HOMECOMING

22

Traffic.

Lights spilled across the Harvard Bridge like a river of bright white orbs flowing through the darkness. The lights of Boston’s financial district shimmered on the black waters of the Charles River below as Cody drove his beloved Buick Riviera, a ‘66 he’d bought from a collector two years previously.

The late fall weather was warm enough for him to keep the window down as he drove, the brisk night air flushed with the saline scent of the nearby Atlantic. Horns blared, tail lights glowed and engines hummed as he crawled across the bridge toward home. Cody had worked late, as he often did: part and parcel of being at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Despite the workload he had managed to get out early enough to see Maria before Danielle put her to bed, only to hit the damned traffic.

Hazard lights ahead hinted at a wreck near the southern end of the bridge, and Cody passed a truck that had hit the barriers after a tyre had blown out. Nobody had been hurt as far as he could tell, just a few fenders bent as the traffic stream had come to an abrupt and unexpected halt. And yet cars crawled past the wreck, drivers straining for a glimpse of what was happening.

Cody felt something in his guts twist in disgust. There was no obstacle to the traffic, the truck having been already towed clear of the road. Yet still people slowed as they passed by, enslaved to a macabre fascination with the misfortune of others.

Cody glanced at the wreck but he did not slow. As the traffic began to move more freely he instead moved up closer to the car in front and hurried them along.

‘Get out and take a damned photograph if you’re that interested,’ he muttered.

Cody turned west off the bridge and out toward the suburbs. Rows of trees lined colonial-style homes with good sized gardens, patriotic flags in most of them softly illuminated by street lights that glowed amongst the leaves.

Cody pulled into his drive and jumped out of the Buick. He hurried up to the front door and let himself in.

‘Dadda!’

He heard Maria’s voice before he saw her, heard her feet thump quickly from the lounge out back and into the hall. Bright smile. Blonde hair. To-die-for brown eyes. Arms outstretched toward him as she ran. ‘Dadda!’

Cody scooped Maria up into his arms and hugged her closely as he walked through the house and into the kitchen. Danielle looked up and smiled as he wandered in, Maria clinging to his neck with one warm cheek pressed against his own. Pots and pans bubbled with aromatic odours as Cody crossed the kitchen to his wife’s side.

‘Just made it,’ he said as he leaned in and kissed her on the cheek. ‘Traffic’s lousy. How’s she been?’

‘Okay,’ Danielle said as she swept a strand of hair from her face. ‘Busy as always and full of new words.’

‘Much like being at work,’ Cody said as he tugged at Maria’s cheek.

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