Shadow of Doubt by Terri Blackstock

Author:Terri Blackstock
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 1998-09-08T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Four

Aunt Aggie had been sitting in the hospital waiting room when she saw Vern get up restlessly and peer into the room. She had braced herself. She knew what would come next.

And then she’d heard shouting, and security people began running to the room, and then nurses and doctors, like Stan had done one of those Code Blue things. When they had dragged Celia out of the room, crying and screaming, Aunt Aggie had been torn between beating Vern off with her cane, and taking the stairs down as fast as she could. Since Vern had gotten Celia onto the elevator before she’d made up her mind, she’d chosen the stairs.

She was out of breath by the time she got all the way down, and just as he’d promised, David was sitting in his car right beside the exit. He saw the look on her face and leaned over to open the passenger door.

“Aunt Aggie, what’s wrong?”

“They got her!” She climbed into the car like a thief escaping a bank robbery. She pulled her wig off and threw it down, leaving her own white hair sticking out all over. “Come in and caught her!”

David cursed. “Where is she?”

“They takin’ her to Newpointe, I guess. Maybe Slidell. Hurry ’round and maybe we’ll catch up with ’em. We can follow ’em, see where they take her. But what if they see us?”

The sound of sirens began to get closer, and David shook his head. “Aunt Aggie, if they do see us, so what? We weren’t under a court order. You and I were allowed to come here.” Aunt Aggie saw several police cars pull in front of the building, and the cops got out and hustled in. “What did they do, call out the cavalry? All she did was break a stupid court order.”

“The commotion!” Aunt Aggie said, dropping her head back against the seat. “You shoulda seen it! The screamin’ and runnin’ and wailin’ and doctors and nurses…”

“I should have talked her out of this. Aunt Aggie, they’ll put her back in jail.”

“I shoulda talked her out of it, too. But I didn’t think we’d get caught. She didn’t hurt nobody.”

They saw Vern leading a crying Celia out the front door and put her roughly into the squad car. Several other cops clustered around the car.

Aunt Aggie started to cry. “I got to help her. I got to go over there and tell ’em to leave her alone, that she didn’t do nothin’ but visit her husband…Give me that cane back.”

“No, Aunt Aggie. I don’t need my sister and my aunt in jail. You’re not going over there swinging your cane at a bunch of cops. Now, just sit here for a minute. I think we can do more good if we follow her to the police station and try to bail her out.”

“Awright,” Aunt Aggie agreed. But in her heart she wasn’t sure if it was the right thing to do.

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