Raven's Heart (Books 1-3) by Kevin O. McLaughlin

Author:Kevin O. McLaughlin [McLaughlin, Kevin O.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Role of the Hero Publishing
Published: 2016-02-14T05:00:00+00:00

7

The stop at my place only took a few minutes, but I was shaking by the time I get back to the car where Drew was waiting for me. There was no doubt in my mind anymore. I had to find a new place to live. I was never going to be able to sleep in that house again, not after everything that had happened to me there. The realization brought me both pain and relief. It felt good to be certain, to know that I had to move. But it was painful to think about severing yet one more link to the family I had lost.

I shoved those thoughts from my mind as best I could. It wasn’t far from Arlington to Waltham. I’d worry about finding a new place to sleep after we’d figured out how to stop Amy.

Drew drove us down a side street and up another, wending his way toward Amy’s house. His car was plain, non-descript. It was the perfect unmarked police car. The odds were against anyone who saw us roll by suspecting that we were doing anything but driving home for the evening. If anything, I was pretty good additional camouflage.

Her house came into sight. Again, the driveway was packed with cars, and a few were parked on the road too.

“Looks like she’s running another therapy session tonight,” I said.

“Mhmm,” Drew murmured. “She does several nights a week.”

He kept on driving, past the house and up the hill a little ways. Once the house was out of sight again, he turned the car around and eased back down the road, stopping when I could just barely see the front of the house again. We were back a bit, hidden behind some bushes for the most part. Hard to spot, but we had a great view.

“This is where you’ve been sitting?” I asked him.

“Yup.” He reached into the back seat and pulled out a thermos. “Coffee? Probably going to be waiting a while.”

“Sure.”

He poured me a cup. The smell of the steam filled my nostrils. I wasn’t the world’s biggest coffee fan, but it’s hard to get through med school without acquiring a taste for the stuff. I was about to reach for the mug he offered when I felt a stabbing pain in the side of my neck.

Instinctively I reacted by slapping the spot that hurt, hard. My hand hit something that wiggled briefly under the blow. I pulled my fingers away. The corpse of a quarter-sized spider was spattered against them. I shook my hand, horrified. The shattered body fell on the floor of the car somewhere.

“She knows. Drew, she knows we’re here.”

He held up a hand. “It’s a spider. It might be her, but it might just be a spider.”

I gave him a glare, and he withered.

“OK, after what we’ve seen, it’s probably not just a spider. But you killed it. Maybe it was just like a guard dog. Attack spiders on the lookout?” he ventured.

I thought hard. She’d been able to track me to my home, to the hospital.

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