Jekyll Island: A Paranormal Mystery (Taryn's Camera Book 5) by Rebecca Patrick-Howard

Author:Rebecca Patrick-Howard [Patrick-Howard, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Mistletoe Press
Published: 2015-10-13T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

For the fifth time in less than an hour the grandfatherly officer assured Matt that he’d done the right thing.

“I’ve never killed a living creature before. I even catch mice and take them out to fields,” Matt worried. “But when I saw that thing slithering around her, I didn’t even think twice.”

“You did the right thing,” the elderly gentleman replied. “If it had’ve been my own wife, I’d have beat that thing to a bloody pulp for touching her.”

“It already bit her once. Are they supposed to go back again for another try?” Matt asked in wonder.

Taryn, propped up in a hospital gown, opened her eyes and looked around in a glassy daze. Her calf throbbed with an ache that wasn’t part of her “normal” pain and her head felt thick. She thought she might vomit and reached for the bowl next to her bed. Both Matt and the officer reached for it at once and handed it to her together.

In embarrassment, Taryn emptied her stomach into the plastic container and tried to ignore the fact that there were people watching her. It was mostly bile that spewed forth, but it was bitter on her tongue, and that alone had her gagging a second time.

When she was finished Matt took the bowl from her and set it on the other side of the room, knowing that having it close would make her even sicker to her stomach. After he’d washed her face off with a cloth he dampened in the sink, he turned back to the officer.

“So that wasn’t normal, right?”

“Well, even those coral snakes won’t usually strike unless they feel threatened,” he agreed.

“And we don’t know if it bit her before or after she passed out,” Matt said.

“I don’t remember,” Taryn croaked, finding her throat sore. “I just remember seeing it. Why am I so sick?”

“It might be the antidote,” Matt replied. “We’re in Brunswick. We got you here pretty fast, but the doctor thinks that because of your EDS it hit you harder.”

“EDS?” the officer asked.

“Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome,” Matt explained. “It’s a connective tissue disorder. Pretty serious. It’s basically like her body is a house and the bricks are all defective. It affects all of her systems and sometimes things that wouldn’t hurt people like us just strike her harder.”

“I’m sorry to hear that ma’am,” the officer remarked, looking grave. “I would like to ask you a few questions, though.”

“I’ll try,” Taryn answered weakly. She felt sick, like she had the flu. She just wanted to go back to sleep, but she also didn’t want Matt leaving her.

“Have you had any trouble with anyone on the island?”

“Me? No,” Taryn smiled thinly. “I don’t interact with many people. I work most of the time and keep to myself.”

“What about friends?” he pressed.

“I haven’t made any,” Taryn stated drily. Now she felt sorry for herself. She’d been there for weeks and hadn’t made even a real acquaintance, other than David. “Oh, wait, I did make a little bit of a friend.

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