Last Night by Karen Ellis

Author:Karen Ellis [Ellis, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Suspense, None
ISBN: 9781473662810
Google: qmuKtAEACAAJ
Amazon: B07CWP6W12
Barnesnoble: B07CWP6W12
Goodreads: 39599778
Publisher: Mulholland Books
Published: 2019-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

19

Hunkered deep in a shadow, Glynnie waits for JJ across the street from his school. Her thoughts twist and knot as she wonders how to tell him what he won’t want to hear: that he was on the bank video with her and Crisp last night.

That the cops have been asking questions.

“Never miss a day of school,” he said. “Can’t draw attention or they’ll put me back in foster.” But he needs to keep his profile even lower than usual because this, school, this will be one of the first places they’ll come poking around once they figure out who he is.

She needs him to know that she, Glynnie, will not be the one to tell them—just so he understands that. But as she’s learned, the Authorities have their wily ways of knowing things, so he should be very careful and he should hide and he should do it now if he wants to stay off the radar and out of the foster system.

That she can and will help him.

That she isn’t a total loser.

That even though she shot Jerome, even though she killed someone, it doesn’t make her a bad person.

Do. Not. Think. About. That. Now.

The twist moves from her brain to her stomach.

She stands with her back to an ornate iron fence and watches as kids stream out of school. It’s a half day early dismissal and the mood is buoyant—the way the little ones run to their mothers, fathers, babysitters, and the larger ones, the fourth and fifth graders, cluster within sight but not earshot of their parents in a perfect balance of protected independence. Innocence on the brink. Observing it from the distance of age and experience—she is a high-school graduate and a murderer now—Glynnie misses that precarious balance.

She waits another half an hour after the last student has emerged. Until the teachers have gone. Until a woman who must be the principal because she’s wearing a dress and high heels comes out. Still no JJ. Maybe he had to stay after for some reason, or maybe he likes being the very last to leave—maybe that’s another part of his plan to stay unnoticed.

Finally, when the janitor locks the front doors with a chunky padlock, she accepts that JJ isn’t coming out. If he isn’t at school, where is he? He isn’t at the squat—she waited there all morning—and he wouldn’t have risked being out and possibly catching the attention of one of the truant officers who lurk the streets between eight and three, salivating to catch you cutting school.

Keeping her head down, Glynnie walks away. She spots a taxi, hails it, and tells the driver to take her to Fairway market in Red Hook. She crouches low in the backseat, trying not to be seen. And then, like a lightning strike, the twist in her stomach returns, too intense this time to breathe away. She closes her eyes and waits it out, willing herself to stay focused on what she needs to do…if only she knew what it was.

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