Siren Song (Harrison Jones and Amy Bell Mystery Book 1) by Rebecca McKinney

Author:Rebecca McKinney [McKinney, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Black Cat Books
Published: 2020-08-26T16:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-ONE

Later on, Amy called herself a taxi and left Harrison alone with a tumbler of whisky and his doubts. He hadn’t expected her to have such a powerful vision her first time. It indicated ability far beyond what he’d first seen in her, and he worried about unleashing it further. It would change her life, and not necessarily for the better. There were so many things he hadn’t told her. How you could never really be alone in your head again. And how at the same time, you could never really be open with anyone. How you had to unlearn everything you had been taught about science, about life and death, about reality. How easy it was to lose touch with yourself because you could no longer tell your own emotions from everyone else’s.

How ordinary relationships were impossible. These days, he rarely allowed himself to think about his years with Sophie, who had given him more than half a decade of her young life, believing him to be the person she would grow old with. He had allowed himself to believe that too, but to stay the course, love needed privacy. It required tactful dishonesty, and Harrison was incapable of giving those things. That lesson had proved exquisitely painful, for both of them.

He had to talk to Amy and make her understand these things before he let her chew the Salvia leaves again.

But he was thinking too much and losing valuable time. It seemed obvious now that Tim and Lucy were in danger, or soon would be, but he was doubtful whether a warning from a stranger via social media would do anything to keep them safe. He could feel the shadow of something much bigger and more ominous hanging over this whole affair, but couldn’t yet see any detail.

Right now, he needed guidance. He picked more leaves. One of the plants was starting to look a bit depleted, and it would be much harder to replace them now that Salvia had been criminalised. He had to tend them carefully and keep them alive. It was time to lay off the stuff and let the plants and his brain cells regenerate.

He lit two candles and sat in their dim flickering light, thinking as hard as he could about Tomas. He closed his eyes and listened to the cadence of his own heart. It began to echo, as if his body had been hollowed out. He was following it down a tunnel, into the Cerro Rico. He’d never been here before.

The walls were crumbly and unstable, held up by rickety wooden supports. The only light was a tiny beam on the dirt floor directly in front of him. The ceiling lowered and he had to bend almost in half to move through it. He listened for the voices of men working and the clink of picks against rock, but all he could hear was his breath and the boom of his heartbeat. Every pulse felt like an explosion deep underground. If he wasn’t careful, he’d bring the mountain down on top of himself.

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