Jackal by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-09-18T21:41:24+00:00

“James!” Sarah sat up in bed. “My, God. James is there.” She reached for her cell phone and dialed.

“Mm?” a groggy Conrad answered.

“James is there,” Sarah blurted out. “He’s there. He bumped into Karla.”

“Sarah, please. You realize it’s two-thirty in the morning?”

“He bumped into Karla.”

“Where—”

“I dreamed it. He’s there.”

“I get you that James is there. But where is there?”

“Aldercrest. I’m going there.”

“Calm down, Sarah. A place named Aldercrest doesn’t exist.”

“I’m aware of that, but I’ll find the real place. Martha finally showed me a glimpse of where I need to go.”

“Martha?”

“Yeah, she’s the one talking to me through the book. It’s her book. Well, sort of. Her lover wrote those poems for her.”

“Wow! Lots of information since we last spoke.”

“They had an affair and he was a poet.”

“How—”

“She showed me a glimpse of their love.”

“A couple of pieces of the puzzle have fallen into place.”

“James is in Aldercrest—”

“But—”

“I’m well aware that’s not the real name. Nevertheless, they’re both in the same town, Clear Lake, that’s the real name. Karla saw a sign on the road.”

“But it could also be a false one.”

“No, Clear Lake exists, I saw it on the map when I was looking for—”

“That doesn’t mean that’s where they are.”

“She showed me James, so clearly that’s where I need to be. I’m leaving right now. It was nighttime there and it’s nighttime here. I have to catch up with them. You don’t need to come here. I’ll be with James.”

Conrad tried to slow her down. “Hold on Sarah, I don’t like the sound of this. You need to calm down and figure things out.”

“I don’t have time for that. I’m checking out. I’ll leave a note with my goodbyes for the girls. I’ll call you when I get there.”

“But—”

“Don’t worry, I’ll be with James. He’ll take care of me. Love you.”

She rang off, grabbed the hotel telephone from the nightstand, and dialed the front desk, but there was no answer. “Oh, that’s right. No one’s there till the morning. I’ll leave them a note saying that something came up and that I had to check out during the night.”

Her cell phone rang. She glanced at it and saw Conrad’s smiling face, but before she could answer, the phone growled, the image disappeared, and static replaced his face.

“Martha,” she protested, “don’t interfere! Let him through!”

The phone grumbled.

She snatched up the hotel’s phone. No dial tone, only static.

Frustrated, she got her suitcase, gathered all her belongings and threw them inside. She wrote a couple of quick notes to Sonia and Iris on the hotel’s letterhead, and put them in her purse along with her cell and the book. She dropped the notes off at the front desk, and left.

She got into her car and took off. The streets of Eureka were deserted at that time of night, providing her with a moment to gather her thoughts. “C’mon,” she whispered, “time to give me more clues, Martha.”

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