The House on Miracle Street by Zelma Blitzreiter

Author:Zelma Blitzreiter [Blitzreiter, Zelma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781493593279
Amazon: B00G6AYSB0
Goodreads: 19508194
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Published: 2013-10-24T03:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

There was still plenty of time to kill before the party.

Trick drove fast over roads she hadn’t driven since she was a teen.

Most everything in the woods around town looked the same. There was the waterfall she and Sunny had dared each other to dive off. They’d both taken the dare. There was the covered bridge, and the old dairy, and the “mystery spot” where, if you put your car in neutral, your car would start rolling uphill.

Over the years Trick learned that many towns had “anti-gravity” spots like that. But when they were kids, they thought Edgerton was the only place with a “mystery spot”. It was all an optical illusion of course.

“It might be nice, sometimes,” thought Trick, “to still be young and naïve and believe a car could roll uphill…”

She circled around and approached town from the northeast. And there it was, finally, near the interstate exchange, the Hilton everyone kept talking about. The Hilton and the mall.

The Hilton was huge. Could the hospital and the cancer research center and the mill justify that sized hotel? It seemed strange.

She drove around the hotel, and then she drove around the mall, which sported an Old Navy, Barnes & Noble bookstore, bath and home store, Macy’s, JC Penney’s, and sundry other stores, as well as a 14-theater Cineplex and restaurants like a Cheesecake Factory and an Olive Garden.

Shit. What she and her friends wouldn’t have given to have a mall like that to go to when they were growing up! All they’d had was Center Street.

“Hope the kids around here know how lucky they are,” thought Trick.

She circled around to River Street, past the McMansions and the monumental hospital complex.

Mark was in there, she thought, as she drove past the cancer research center. He was in there making a difference and saving lives.

On River Road she passed the monstrous mill complex.

“What the hell,” she wondered, “is going on in there, Ben Bleu? I’m gonna find out…”

She turned onto Miracle Road, and passed the schools again, and then it narrowed to Miracle Street, and within a few moments she had returned to Bernier’s B&B.

She parked in front.

Kurt wasn’t at the desk now. A red-haired woman had taken his place—a younger sister of Kurt’s, by the look of her.

“Any message for Trick Midswain?” Trick asked her.

The girl shook her head. She was watching an old movie on the small, rabbit-eared set.

“You’re sure?”

The woman glanced irritably at Trick.

“We don’t have too many guests right now,” she said in a snotty voice. “I’d know if you have a message.”

“There it is,” thought Trick. “That sweet, small-town charm…”

Trick took the stairs up to the second-floor landing. She slipped out of her heels and crept down the hall to Room 214. She could hear the muffled murmur of the television inside the room. It sounded like a news report. The language didn’t sound like English. She thought it was French—probably a Canadian TV station.

The TV was on—but was Dassault still in his room? He

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