RIVER by Samantha Leal

Author:Samantha Leal [Leal, Samantha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-26T16:00:00+00:00

At the station, the cops led her into a room and got a cup of coffee and a blanket. She sat there with it wrapped around her shoulders in the reception area, and she tried not to let her legs shake too much as she remembered what had happened.

She seemed to recognize everyone who worked in there. Another one of the perils of living in a small town. She reached up and waved to the girl sitting at the welcome desk and then she sipped her drink.

She had texted River.

She knew he was working but she didn’t want to call and let her voice break on the phone to him. She just needed his advice, and she also needed to know what the hell was going on. There was only so much she could take. He had told her something was happening, and now she couldn’t ignore it any longer. She was going to have to know what was going on around town, and why her best friend was hiding away with a baby on the mountain.

She drank her coffee and waited as the time ticked by.

She looked up and saw that it was just past midnight and she wondered how busy the bar was. She would give anything to just be working instead of sitting there in the police station. She would love to be pouring drinks and making small talk with customers. The last thing she ever thought she would be doing when she had been given some time off was spending it freaked out and terrified in the Lost Creek Police Department.

She heard the sound of footsteps running toward the doorway, and when she looked up and saw River come bursting through the door, he was out of breath and muddied.

“Stacey,” he gasped as he came toward her.

She got to her feet and the blanket fell from the shoulders. River rushed toward her and put his arm around her and looked at her deep in the eyes.

“Are you all right?” he asked her.

She nodded and looked at him. His hands were filthy, and his nails were raggy and ripped. She swallowed hard and her heart beat faster.

“What happened to you?” she asked him.

He had a gash on the side of his temple and he shook his head as if he were silently pleading her to be quiet.

She nodded her head and reached down for her overnight bag, and then River motioned toward the doorway and began to leave and head toward it. Stacey looked at the girl on reception and walked over to her cautiously.

“Umm, my ride is here so I’m going to go,” she said nervously. “Shall I just call in the morning, or will the officers call me?”

The girl was chewing gum and couldn’t have looked much more disinterested.

“Erm, you call us, yeah?” she said as she popped a bubble and smiled sweetly.

Stacey nodded her head and turned on her heel, and then she fled from the police department and went out into the parking lot to look for River.

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