My Soul to Take: A Novel of Iceland by Yrsa Sigurdardóttir

Author:Yrsa Sigurdardóttir
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery
ISBN: 9780061143380
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 2009-04-18T05:00:00+00:00

MONDAY, 12 JUNE 2006

THORA WAS PACING in circles around the parking lot, trying to get a mobile signal. Matthew watched her in bemusement. "Why don't you use the phone in your room?" he asked, hopping up and down to keep warm. The weather was horrible--Thora couldn't tell if they were in the middle of a bank of fog or if it was just low clouds.

She had made a fruitless attempt to contact her son the previous evening, and wanted to start the day by locating both him and her trailer. The boy did not have a valid driver's license, but he was taking lessons. Thora was petrified that something bad had happened. The sequence of texts on her mobile had painted a clear picture of the scenario as it unfolded. The first three were from Gylfi. In the first he expressed displeasure at not being able to go home as planned, in the second he said his dad was driving him mad, and the third merely stated, "eye of the tiger--im out of here." Several texts from her ex followed, declaring Gylfi impossible to live with and blaming her for that. Thora erased those messages. Gylfi was generally fairly soft-spoken, a keen student, and far from the thug his father described. He was only young, though, and sometimes had trouble holding his tongue, especially on the subject of his father's dreadful attempts at karaoke. "Eye of the Tiger" had clearly been the straw that broke the camel's back. Thora could not recall Gylfi ever being excited about going to stay with his father, even without his sister's PlayStation SingStar. After their divorce, Hannes had met a woman who was a passionate horse lover and he had been bitten by the same bug. Neither Gylfi nor Soley shared his interest--in fact, Gylfi was frightened of horses, a fear he had picked up from his mother. He always felt uncomfortable at his father's house, with the threat of a horse ride hanging over his head. In spite of all Thora's efforts to explain, Hannes refused to understand. He always said their son "just hadn't got the hang of it yet."

Thora sighed deeply, waiting for Gylfi to pick up. She wondered whether she should call his girlfriend's parents, but quailed at the thought. Gylfi had obviously taken her with him on his impromptu trailer journey, because Thora had received a text from the girl's mother and didn't care to recollect the language she had used. As a mother, Thora could well understand the woman's fury; she would not be best pleased if it were her daughter, Soley, on the verge of giving birth in her sixteenth year, absconding with a boy hardly any older in an SUV pulling a trailer. She thanked her lucky stars that Sigga's parents had not realized that Gylfi was driving without a license.

Eventually her call was answered and Gylfi's sleepy voice came over the line. "Hello."

"Where are you?" shouted Thora, who had intended to remain calm.

"What? Me?" Gylfi asked foolishly.

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