Random Road by Thomas Kies

Author:Thomas Kies [Kies, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781464208034
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press, Inc.
Published: 2017-01-02T07:00:00+00:00

I stayed with Kevin for a little while longer, wishing that we could be alone for a few minutes. I wanted to apologize again for what had happened with Frank.

I couldn’t shake the nagging suspicion that somehow I’d caused this.

Was his condition, whatever it was, exacerbated by the discovery of my adulterous disloyalty? All I wanted to do was drape myself over his chest and say that I was so very, very sorry.

Guilt sucks.

Caroline and I were quickly revisited by Ruth, who was now thoroughly annoyed. She’d been dismissed angrily by Kevin’s doctor. Apparently, when she’d charged into a cubicle to grill him about Kevin’s condition, he was sewing up a head laceration. The ER physician, on the tail end of a thirteen-hour shift, was in no mood for Ruth.

I’m not the only one she pisses off.

She did manage to talk to a nurse who confirmed what Kevin had told us.

They didn’t know what was wrong with him and they were keeping him for observation and a round of tests.

I made certain that Caroline wouldn’t be alone that night. She said that she was going to stay with Aunt Ruth. If I’d been Caroline, the last place I’d want to be is with Ruth, but I couldn’t offer her an alternative without starting an argument.

So I kissed Kevin on the lips, jokingly told him to study hard for his tests, and said goodnight to everyone.

I went home and walked Tucker. After nuking some Lean Cuisine, I poured myself a vodka and ice and sat out on the porch. While heat lightning played hide and seek in the clouds on the horizon, I listened to the crickets and thought about the events of the day.

How Kevin and I had eaten a wonderful breakfast at Flap Jack’s, seeing Kevin’s bedroom, talking to the guard out on Connor’s Landing, meeting the Elroys, and then running into that rat-bastard Frank near their pool.

Interviewing the Brenner brothers in that dark house and being thoroughly terrified.

Seeing Kevin in the hospital.

That was the scariest part of the day.

I looked at my watch. It was only nine-thirty, but I was exhausted.

When I finished my drink, I went back into my apartment, and remembering my visit with the Brenners, made certain the door was locked. I picked up a book I’ve been wading through for six months about war journalists. Then I grabbed the bottle of vodka out of the cupboard, took it and my book into the bedroom and drank myself to sleep.

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