The Keeper Returns (The Wallis Jones Series Book 3) by Martha Carr

Author:Martha Carr [Carr, Martha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MRC Publishing
Published: 2016-12-22T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

It was a strange invitation to begin with and Wallis knew it but she was out of other ideas.

Besides, after what happened she no longer cared.

She sat at her formal dining room table looking across at her mother at one end of the table and Esther at the other as they both tried to act like they didn’t see each other.

For just a moment, Wallis wondered if this was a bad idea.

“We’re going to have to figure out how to work together,” she blurted out, feeling her face flush red. “Otherwise it’s going to be two years ago all over again and I’m not going to let that happen. However, I don’t believe I can do that without some help,” she said, looking at the two older women.

They had been arguing and talking over each other since they arrived. Wallis had tried to wait them out but was starting to realize they could go on like that for hours. Ned was safely tucked into his parent’s bed watching TV and eating fried chicken. Wallis had never let him do that before but tonight she didn’t care about rules.

She had stood in the doorway of her room for a moment, looking at her son happily biting down on a chicken leg, dripping grease onto her comforter and she felt how close she had come to not seeing him again.

Before she had come downstairs she had found one of his old baby monitors and taken a battery out of the smoke alarm in the hallway. The other monitor was clenched in her hand and she could hear the faint, scratchy drone of Japanese cartoons.

“This is one of your worst ideas yet, young lady,” said Harriet. “Worse than really, anything I can think of at the moment. You’re usually so sensible.”

“If I’d known why you called me here,” said Esther, looking as angry as Wallis had ever seen her look. “I’m not staying here,” she said, dramatically rolling her r’s and rising from her chair, gathering her things.

Wallis slammed her palm down on the table so hard her fingers went numb for just a moment. The solid oak table shook for a moment and the sound echoed through the wood.

“Shut the fuck up, both of you,” she screamed. “Enough of your goddamn rules. Enough. Enough of how things ought to be. They took my son and you both are going to help me figure out what to do next or so help me, God, I will start shooting someone.” Wallis leaned over the table menacingly at her mother and Esther. “I don’t really care anymore,” she hissed, “and your age or your relationship to me will mean nothing. They took my son,” she said, pounding again on the table.

There were tears in her eyes as she said the last words slowly, “and Alice is already dead. I will not wait for any of you to figure out what the hell is protocol. From now on, I’m your goddamn protocol.”

Esther slowly sat back down and both women kept on mumbling at a low hum.

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