Revenge Walk by Melissa Bowersock

Author:Melissa Bowersock [Bowersock, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New Moon Publishing
Published: 2018-09-02T22:00:00+00:00

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THIRTEEN

Wednesday evening they merged with a mass of the LA rush hour traffic and made their slow way to Kagel Canyon. Lacey wouldn’t imagine driving in this slow-motion river every day—twice every day. She was eternally grateful for the freedom to work from home.

She was also grateful that they’d be able to resolve the Reeds’ problem tonight and put it behind them so they could focus fully on the open house. Sam’s first firing had gone well and he hadn’t lost a single pot. Today he’d laid the second batch into the fire pit, and tomorrow he would fire the glazed pieces. It was all coming together.

Lacey pulled into the Reeds’ driveway and parked. She hauled her pack from the back seat while Sam plucked two smudge sticks from his cup holder. They mounted the steps to the Reeds’ front porch and Price immediately pulled the door open to greet them.

“Hello; come in.” He smiled heartily and shook their hands with enthusiasm. Vicky was just finishing up in the kitchen and wiped her hands on a towel before she welcomed them.

“Please, sit down,” she said, motioning toward the living room.

“Actually,” Sam said, “if you wouldn’t mind, I’d like to see what the water company did with the well first. Did they get it all filled in?”

“Completely,” Price said. He led the way out the back door, and Vicky and the girls followed Sam and Lacey. “It took most of the day. I don’t know how many dump trucks of rock and gravel they ended up using. It was quite an undertaking.”

Out past the patio, the beautiful green lawn was scarred by the tracks of many heavy trucks. The wide ruts crisscrossed the grass.

“Your lawn,” Lacey groaned.

“It’s okay,” Price said. “Grass is easy to replace. It’ll be worth the trouble if this solves the problem.”

Price, Sam and Lacey followed the tracks toward the back of the property while Vicky and the girls waited on the patio. As they neared the site of the well, Lacey could see a large metal plate covering an area about ten feet square. The slanting light of the setting sun made it gleam.

“Wow,” she said. “That’s a serious cover. No one’s getting through that.”

“Exactly,” Price said. “It extends past the edges of the well, past the ground that was eroding away. And with the hole filled with sand and gravel, there should be no more erosion.”

Sam carefully walked the ground just outside the cover. He placed his feet mindfully, testing the ground, and stopped occasionally to receive any impressions from the ether. He walked the full square, all four sides, and came back to where Lacey and Price waited.

“This is good,” he pronounced. “She’s—well, I won’t say she’s happy, but she’s no longer concerned. She knows the girls are safe now. You’ll have no more trouble out here.”

Price exhaled with relief. “Thank God. I really felt very confident in the work that was done, but having her… approval, well, that means everything. I—I do appreciate that

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