The Angel and the Dragon (Hattie Jenkins & The Infiniti Chronicles Book 8) by Goodfellow Pearl

Author:Goodfellow, Pearl [Goodfellow, Pearl]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Soar Free Publishing
Published: 2018-01-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

“Do you think there’ll ever be a time when we don’t have to walk into a pit of danger every time we go out?” Fraidy asked, sticking close to my ankles, as we walked the length of the corridor toward Cressida Dreddock’s glass cell.

“Sweetie, Cressida isn’t dangerous. She’s just confused,” I said, bending down to scoop my nervous kitty up. He began purring immediately, head bunting my chin as he vibrated.

“Oh, sure, sure,” he said, between his rumblings. “They always lock up sweet, innocent ladies in maximum security wards, right?”

“Oh, hush now. You know this is important. Any moment now, we may just find out how all of these murders are connected.” Fraidy headbutted my chin again, and, still purring, he let his feelings on the matter be known. “You’re not forgetting Cressida is a raving loony, are you? I mean … does she really have the ‘ins’ on these killings, or could it be just another of her lunatic ideas?”

I didn’t answer my cat, I just tried to keep up with David, who was striding silently ahead of me. Fraidy, ‘Clipsy and Shade trotted behind me. I looked at the back of my friend’s head. Although David appeared to be reasonably ‘copacetic’ this morning, he certainly wasn’t his usual warm self. And I didn’t like it. Not one bit.

“Everything okay, chief?” I called out.

He spun toward me. “Huh?” He looked confused. “Uh, yeah, sure. I’m fine. Just tired, that’s all.”

“David, I can do this alone if you want to go home and rest?”

“What? No. Why would you say that? Are you trying to keep me away from Midnight Hill too? Is that it?”

“No! Of course not,” I said. “I didn’t mean it like that, I just thought --”

“You just thought you’d what? Report to control-command that I’m stepping outside my comfort zone again?”

“David, I --”

“Hat, save it. We’re here now. Let’s get this over with. I suspect it won’t be heartwarming news from Cressida.”

I said nothing and followed him the last couple of steps to Nebula Dreddock’s mad twin’s cell. I hung back as I watched David tap the glass that separated Cressida from the visitor’s corridor. Shade joined him, sticking close to the chief’s ankles, but up on his hindquarters nonetheless, so he could get a better view into the mad woman’s cage. Shade’s jaw fell open, and my cat stared; mesmerized by the vision in Cressida’s lock-up.

With Fraidy still in my arms, I joined the chief and Shade.

“Uh-huh, we need to split,” Fraidy said as soon as he saw Cressida Dreddock behind the thick glass. The mad witch sat, like a prehistoric bird, perched on the end of her bed, shouting at the ceiling. Nebula’s sister looked tiny and frail under her swimmingly large state-issued orange coveralls. Her pale hands fluttered wildly in the air as she screamed sweet nothings in the air. I heard Shade chuckle at my feet. “Man, this broad’s barking mad. We sure we can trust her intel? Seems to me like she might be getting messages from the land of the crazies.

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