Emville Confidential by Don Trembath

Author:Don Trembath
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUV000000
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2007-09-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Thanks to the fact that the notepad Wilson had lent them had her address and phone number conveniently scrawled across the back page, Myles knew exactly how to get to her house.

It took him only eight minutes to run home, get his bicycle, ride to Wilson’s house and hide behind her garage.

The time had come to find out who she really was and what she was up to.

Two minutes and forty-five, forty-six, forty-seven seconds later — just long enough for Myles to catch his breath — Wilson wheeled up the driveway, parked her bike where it belonged, removed her helmet and hung it on the handlebars.

As she did on occasion, especially when she believed she was alone, she was talking out loud to her sister.

“All right, so I did it again. I said I wish I had a sister. You know what I meant, right? It’s nothing personal.”

Myles frowned as he waited for the reply.

“It’s just that when I hear Baron talking about his sister like that, I really miss you. We used to fight like he does with Kitty. We used to talk all the time.”

The clear, blue, daytime sky was ceding to night, but it was still not quite dark enough to provide Myles with the cover he needed to safely find out who Wilson was talking to.

“But anyway,” Wilson continued. “You can’t bring back the past, right? How many times have I heard that in the last twelve months?”

Myles sensed that she was leaning against the garage.

He heard her sigh deeply. She seemed troubled.

“So what do you think of this Kitty person? Sounds like someone you could sacrifice in one of your books pretty easily. I’m going out with Baron on a job tomorrow. God, I hope it works out better than that disaster in the tree. I really don’t know about Myles. Sometimes I think he’s a neat guy and other times I feel like squeezing his head until I hear it pop.

“I know it’s better than hanging around here with Mom and Auntie Heather. But still. I can complain about people if I want to, can’t I? Isn’t that one of the benefits of sharing all this with you — I don’t have to worry about you telling anyone? There have to be some perks to this relationship.”

She heard a sound to her right, turned her head and saw Myles staring up at her from behind the garage.

Immediately he ducked out of her view, leaving her with the impression that she was seeing things.

“Myles?” She picked her helmet off the handlebars of her bike and moved toward the back of the garage, where she heard a scuffling sound, followed by the thud of a heavy object falling to the ground.

“Myles, are you back here?”

She peered around the corner.

At first she saw nothing but a stack of rotten boards from an old fence that her aunt had replaced last fall. An old, heavy, wooden gate was leaned up next to the boards. Then the gate moved.

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