On the Edge by CD Reiss

Author:CD Reiss
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781942833536
Publisher: Flip City Media Inc
Published: 2018-06-12T04:00:00+00:00

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I’d agreed to go downstairs because my husband had asked me for an easy favor and I had no reason not to. He wasn’t feeling well. I’d make him soup and pour him tea. I’d tuck him under blankets and put a hot water bottle between his feet. But going down the narrow wooden stairs, I realized he hadn’t asked me to get his uniform because he was sick but because he didn’t want to go down to the basement.

I left the box on the bar and went to the hidden safe with the false wall. The bottle room was still bare, still cold, still psychologically the farthest away from the rest of the house. I turned on the light and crouched through the door. It was a prison with concrete walls lined in cylindrical honeycombs. Just a little too short to stand straight. A little too small to stretch your arms. A hard, cold womb.

The little boy had hid here until he was too big to feel safe in it. Or was that the reason? He’d never told me why or when he’d stopped hiding here, only that he had. I ran my fingers along the dusty concrete shelf the depth of a whiskey bottle and pushed the door closed halfway so I could see the back of it.

There was no knob, obviously, since it was disguised as a wall from the other side. The sheet metal had holes in the back where a lock would have been. If the people in the bar were hiding, the lock would be on the inside so it would seal the room away from the cops. My first thought was that young Caden had locked it one too many times and his father had taken off the bolt. But when I looked at the outside, I saw something I hadn’t noticed before. The lock had been moved to the outside, where it would be visible from inside the safe but not accessible from the bottle room.

That didn’t make sense.

Until it did.

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