Pawsitively Dead (A Wonder Cats Mystery Book 2) by Harper Lin

Author:Harper Lin [Lin, Harper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harper Lin Books
Published: 2015-08-17T03:00:00+00:00

Mr. Park

I belted his wrists with the straps on either side of the bed. His expression seemed apprehensive, but he didn’t have the presence of mind to resist me.

I barred my arm against the defenseless old man’s throat and told him, “You don’t have a family. If I crushed your neck right now so that you couldn’t breathe, nobody would miss you.”

Topher’s old eyes met mine fearfully.

“I’d do it if it would stop you from killing people! Why Samantha? Why Old Murray? What are you trying to do? Tell me!”

“Tommy,” he said tremulously. “Not Alice. Can’t with Alice. Bring them back.”

“How?” I demanded. “What did it promise you?”

“It showed me that it could!” he wailed. “It showed me how! Your man…”

My man? I backed away. “Do you mean Min? Min Park? He’s a friend.”

He shook his head.

“Why him?” I asked. “Why any of these people?”

He continued to shake his head.

I put my hand against his throat and shouted, “Answer me! Why are you so fixated on Min Park?”

The door slammed open. Mr. Park stood in the doorway, and he looked at me with an expression that I’d never seen on his face. He was afraid. But he told me in a stern and commanding voice, “Leave him alone. Step back.”

He wasn’t afraid of me. He wasn’t even afraid for me.

I stepped back as Min jogged up behind his father.

“Cath,” Min said, “what are you doing?”

“She was going to kill this poor old man!” Mr. Park declared.

“That’s a lie!” More of a mistake really. Unfortunately, it was an easy mistake to make. It was true, though, that I wasn’t going to kill Topher—not on purpose. I was only threatening him. I knew that wouldn’t have sounded better.

Mr. Park demanded, “What are you doing in this room then?”

I shot back, “What are you doing opening the door to this room? You’re not an orderly. That’s not allowed.”

“Tell the orderly! I will tell them what I saw.”

The nurse strode up to us and hissed, “What’s going on? You’re being very noisy and upsetting the patients.”

Mr. Park and I glared at each other. Then Mr. Park told the nurse what he’d seen me doing. I didn’t know how to win that argument, and I didn’t feel like I could. With the look on the nurse’s face—shock, then betrayal, then contempt—I wouldn’t even try.

Min looked from me to his father, not sure what was going on. “This is crazy. I’m leaving.”

“You should all leave,” the nurse said.

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