Take Me With You by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Author:Catherine Ryan Hyde [Hyde, Catherine Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781477820018
Publisher: Amazon Pub
Published: 2014-06-10T05:00:00+00:00

When August saw the rig off in the distance, the lights were on inside. Not surprisingly, Seth was awake and waiting up. There were no police cars.

“Where do you think all the police cars went?” he asked Emory.

“Hmm. Not sure. Could be good. Maybe they got a tip or something.”

A hard knot began to form in August’s stomach. The pain and fear of not knowing had seemed so overwhelming. This was the first moment it dawned on him that the pain and fear of finding out could be far worse.

When they were no more than twenty or thirty steps from the motor home, Woody jumped down and ran to the back door of the rig. And a police SUV appeared over the rise, headed in their direction, red lights silently spinning.

August stopped in the road, and Emory stopped to see why August stopped. August clutched at the man’s arm, because in a distant and numb way he felt like he might tumble.

“Oh God. They know something.”

It surprised August when words came out of him, because he felt completely immobile. As if made of stone. Emory put one hand on August’s shoulder, clearly understanding how much support was needed.

“Maybe they know something good.”

“It’s my fault, Emory. If something happened to that boy, I have to live with it forever.”

“There’s no real negligence here, August. Kids run away. Been doing it since the beginning of time.”

“But this one did it on my watch. How am I going to tell his father?”

“Hold yourself together. Don’t write your own ending here before we know. Let’s go see what’s what.”

They began to put one foot in front of the other again just as a brown-uniformed policeman stepped out of his SUV and opened its back door. That broke through the cold stone and concrete of August and struck him as a possible good sign.

The policeman turned around to face them in the thin moonlight, clearly holding the shape of a child on his hip.

“Well, well,” Emory said. “Looks like we get our lucky night after all.”

August ran to them.

“This the young man you lost, sir?” the policeman asked.

Henry reached out for August, and August grabbed him into his arms. Held him so tightly that it must have been hard for the boy to breathe fully. But he didn’t loosen his grip, and Henry didn’t complain.

“I have no idea how to thank you enough,” August said to the policeman when he could finally breathe and speak.

“These things happen.”

“Where’d you find him?”

“We didn’t. Actually. A couple of our local folks found the boy walking and took him home with them. Then they ran him down to the police station to see who might be looking for him. They said to tell you sorry about the dog. They tried to get the dog, but he was worried about them taking the boy, and he wouldn’t come. They couldn’t catch him.”

“Walt and Velma Begay?”

“Now how on earth did you know that?”

“He knows that,” said Emory, who was suddenly at August’s shoulder, “because he has a real good dog.

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