Finding Hekate by Kellie Doherty

Author:Kellie Doherty [Doherty, Kellie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Desert Palm Press
Published: 2016-04-07T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Mia didn’t get far. Only a few feet away from Arai, a hand on her shoulder stopped her, and she looked up. Cassidy stood in front of her. The weight of her hand grew heavy, as if she needed support. Mia straightened.

“You should come with us,” Cassidy muttered.

At Mia’s questioning glance, Cassidy tilted her head. Robert, and the woman in white who had patched him up, lingered behind. The nurse seemed antsy, shifting her weight back and forth, grasping a small, flat device in her hand. Cassidy merely squeezed Mia’s shoulder and they wandered back.

Arai looked up as Mia sat down across from her. Mia did not return the mother’s lingering scrutiny. Robert crouched next to his wife, and the black-haired nurse hovered around them. Cassidy sat close to Mia, their shoulders touched.

“Nurse Jones has some more information for us,” Robert said.

“The military found another undamaged camera.” The woman didn’t say it was from Sarah’s death. Perhaps she couldn’t. “They analyzed it already and determined you should be the ones to have it. Here.”

She shoved the tiny device in Arai’s direction. When Arai did not respond, Robert took the chip. The woman sat down beside Cassidy, stretching her legs out in front of her. It seemed she intended to stay and watch. Mia scowled. How did a nurse get assigned the job of being a messenger? The woman’s white trench coat flipped open, revealing a white shirt that draped open at the neck, skintight black pants, and gray shoes. She looked all too comfortable in such a sad atmosphere.

Robert fumbled with fitting the chip into the holocard. With the way he handled it, too rough, too rushed, it seemed he didn’t actually want to. Mia understood. What father would? Still, if that chip held information about the Acedians, it could prove useful.

“Breach it! Here,” the woman in white scoffed. She leaned over, grabbing both the chip and the holocard. She slid the chip into a tiny slot in the side and pointed to a square screen on the bottom. “If you touch this, it’ll start playing for you.” Without waiting for approval, she activated the chip.

An image flashed up, fuzzy around the edges. The Dee household appeared. No, just outside the Dee home, this recorder had been pointed into one of their little windows. Through that window, the inner workings of the Dee’s residence could be seen, the pale blue walls, the mismatched furniture, the circular rug on the floor. Arai was just walking down the stairs. Elizabeth sat on one of the chairs, facing the window, reading. Sarah stood next to her father. The recorder did not catch their words.

The Dee’s door cracked, weaknesses in the wood splintering, shattering forward. Shards scattered on the rug at Sarah and Robert’s feet. Elizabeth started, her archivist falling from her hands. Robert and Sarah moved back a pace. Two men, both dressed in loose, brown clothing, barreled in and looked around. Their black vests and dark boots stood out in the lighter surroundings.

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