Northwest Angle: A Novel by William Kent Krueger

Author:William Kent Krueger [Krueger, William Kent]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Suspense, Fiction, General, Mystery & Detective, Thrillers, Crime
ISBN: 9781439153963
Google: WikP56zjEdEC
Amazon: 1439153965
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2012-04-10T05:00:00+00:00

Jenny said, “He’s a selfish idiot.”

“Maybe. To me, he just seems really confused, Jenny. Who wouldn’t be?”

“I’m not.”

“What if you have to give this baby up?”

“I know I’m going to have to give this baby up.”

“Really? Because that’s not the sense I get from you at all.”

Jenny looked down at the child, who lay in the basket at her feet, awake now and staring up intently at her face. She said sadly, “Who’s going to take him?”

“I don’t know. I imagine a decision like that gets made by people with authority.”

“According to rules,” Jenny said bitterly.

“The rules are there to protect the children. You know that.”

She did, but it didn’t matter. Suddenly she was crying. It came over her in an unexpected flood, as if some flimsy dam had finally burst inside her. She leaned to her sister, who held her.

“I know it’s crazy,” she confessed. “Don’t you think I know that? But I can’t help it. The moment I saw him, I knew. It was like I was meant to find him.”

“It’s okay,” Anne said and smoothed her sister’s hair. “I understand.”

“I was so scared out there. Scared for him and Dad and me. I didn’t know if we were going to make it. All I could think about was that poor girl in the cabin and what had been done to her, and would they do the same to me, and, God, what would they do to him?” She drew away from Anne and reached down, pulled the baby from the basket, held him and went on crying.

“It’s all right,” Anne said. “It’s over, Jenny.”

“Is it? We don’t know who that man out there was or why he wanted the baby. Because it was the baby he was after. That much I’m sure of.”

“Okay. But we’re all here to help protect him. He’s safe now.”

“Then why am I so afraid?” She ran her hand along the baby’s soft cheek, then gave her sister a desperate look and spoke words that came out of some dark place of knowing deep inside her. “Can’t you feel it, Annie?”

“Feel what?”

Jenny clutched the child as if some terrible force were trying to wrench him from her. “It’s not over yet,” she said. “The worst is still to come.”

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