Salvation (Book Two of the Geminae Duology) by Lynette DeVries

Author:Lynette DeVries [DeVries, Lynette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lynette DeVries

thirty-seven

Fewer than two hours after her release from the county jail, Susan stood at the door of Musica Geminae.

The doctor had told her to stay in her motel room, but she needed to see Indigo before she completely turned herself over to God’s plan.

The walk had taken her a solid hour and had left her parched and sweaty, but Susan told herself it was penance for her disobedience—and for a lifetime of sins.

She stood in the heat, straining to hear something beyond the pulsating cicadas. The neon OPEN sign in the window was dark, but she tried the door anyway.

It was locked.

“Damnation!” She bowed her head and scrambled for a quick verse to undo the curse word, but her disappointment was too great.

It had been days since she’d heard from Indigo, but between her hospitalization and incarceration, it felt like years. The lack of text messages stung, but finding the store closed up was salt in the wound. The naïve optimist inside her head had expected to find her daughter here, seated at her favorite grand piano, lost in one of her classical pieces. At the very least, she’d hoped to get a clue about her whereabouts from the old guy who ran the store.

There were no cars parked out front—no sign of Indigo or Hazel, or the quirky boy with the dark mop of hair and the angelic eyes.

Unfortunately, Susan’s wishful thinking—prayerful thinking, the chattering optimist corrected—had left her without a backup plan.

She turned and sank down to the curb, her knees drawn up to her chest. She was worried about her daughter’s welfare, but her true motivation for finding Indigo was getting harder to dismiss. Susan had the nagging feeling that Indigo might be connected, somehow, to her own salvation—that she might know what to do next.

The logical part of Susan’s brain knew that Hazel, her lost-and-found miracle, was with Indigo, wherever she was.

Then she had a terrible, fleeting thought: had she made the entire reunion up in her mind?

The cicadas had gone silent, but Susan paid no mind. She barely noticed the sedan approaching, tires crunching on the gravel drive until it came to a stop in front of the store. The driver’s side window slid down with a serpentine hiss, and she looked up.

She didn’t recognize him until he removed his sunglasses. It was the man from the booking area at the county jail, the doctor who had spoken hope into her soul.

Susan rose to her feet, not bothering to brush the sand and grit from her shorts. “Dr. Zellinger,” she breathed. “How did you find me here?”

The doctor’s smile didn’t quite reach his eyes. “Let’s just say an angel whispered in my ear.” He fixed her with a knowing look. “You won’t find your daughter here.”

Susan took a few steps toward his car, then stopped. He was a God-send, clearly, but she felt afraid. Maybe the part of her that feared him was the same part of her that was sinful and weak.

“Then where is she?” Susan teetered on her feet, suddenly woozy.

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