Sometimes the Wolf by Urban Waite

Author:Urban Waite
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780062216939
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2014-09-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

BEAN CHECKED THE SIGNAL on the prepaid phone, the green light of the display open in his palm. A primordial glow showing on the lines of his face before he closed the thing in his palm and took a step away into the night. The day gone behind the mountains and the light from the fire barely visible through the small thicket of trees. He paused to take it all in, the country road a mile off but no car seen or heard for over an hour now. The place he’d picked for them close to a drainage stream, no bigger than a creek, the trees grown tall and thick around the water’s edge.

He stood there looking it all over, the creek heard from time to time, and the wind shifting and moving the branches overhead. Smoke pulled one way from the fire and then another, gray as it rose, and then turned black, all of it lit from beneath and then fading away into the night sky above. At the fire Bean could see where John Wesley stood with a slender branch of willow in his hand, tending to the coals with his eyes fixed downward into the flames, and Drake’s wife sitting there with her hands still taped together in front of her.

They hadn’t talked more than to offer her some food. Cans of chili they ate cold with their fingertips. A few apples they’d stolen from Drake’s kitchen. They ate and threw the empty tins into the shadows of the thicket. Only letting Sheri eat when they had finished.

Now Bean stood beyond the fire wearing the black suit, his legs knee-deep in the wheat field. The lapels of his jacket turned up to ward off the cold and the black material scuffed with dirt in places from the few days of work he’d used it for. He pulled the lapels closer around his neck and walked a few more feet through the grass, holding the lapels of his jacket to his skin and watching the empty space in the wheat fields a mile off where the road came through.

In his other hand he depressed the power button on the phone and listened to the music play and then when he was satisfied he turned the phone back on and watched the display light again. The same signal as before.

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