Where Angels Rest by Kate Brady

Author:Kate Brady [BRADY, KATE]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Suspense, Thrillers, Romance
ISBN: 1455502049
Publisher: Forever
Published: 2012-11-20T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

29

FIVE IN THE MORNING. Tuesday. Big day. Today, Rebecca would become the ninth angel.

At long last.

The Angelmaker moved about on tiptoe, though no one was around. Only the kitchen was awake at Hilltop House. Rosa was making her cinnamon rolls, getting the coffee and spiced cider going. Leaving Calvin asleep in their apartment.

The barn was silent as a tomb, the only light spilling in from a security bulb for the parking lot outside. The Angelmaker climbed the stairwell and entered Rosa’s apartment, stopped and listened, then slipped into Calvin’s room like a wraith. A pendulum clock ticked off the seconds beside his bed—tick-tock, tick-tock—a reminder that this morning, timing was everything. Engel’s Eatery opened at six and Rebecca worked the early shift. She’d be going to work—walking eight blocks in the still-dark morning—within the next half hour.

The Angelmaker would catch her on the way. No mistake this time.

And Calvin would provide the alibi.

A faint touch of his arm and Calvin came from sleep like a shot. “What?”

“Calvin, it’s me. I’m sorry to wake you, but I need yo—Ahgh! Ah, Calvin. My head, my head.”

“Wakeupwakeupwakeup.” One word.

“Yes, wake up. Please.” The Angelmaker reached to the nightstand and turned on the light. Calvin wore a gray polo shirt with plaid flannel pants, and the creases of a wrinkled pillow marked his face. He looked dazed. “Five-oh-two a.m., five-oh-two, five-oh—”

“I know. I’m sorry. But I need help.”

Calvin was waking up. “What-what?” he said.

“I can’t stand this pain, this headache.” Eyes squeezed closed. “I bought my pills… I must have…”

“What-what? Five-oh-two…” He was concerned now. He’d never seen this kind of pain.

“I need my pills, Calvin. My head…”

“Pills-pills-pills.”

“I bought them, but I threw away the bag on my way from the store. Outside, in the trash can on the sidewalk. Oh, Calvin, I must have thrown the pills away.”

Calvin frowned, his eyes never settling in one place.

“Ahh… Calvin, please. Can you ride over there and find them? You can go before school.”

“Five-oh-three, Tuesday, November thirteenth, two-thousand-twelve. Pills.”

“Oh, thank you. Ahh…” A spasm of pain. “At the Kroger on Shallowford. You know the one?”

Calvin nodded, his face a mask of concern. He’d probably never seen a person having a migraine before. “Find pills.”

“No, don’t go through the trash. Someone will think you’re crazy. Just bring the whole bag from the can outside the door. I’ll go through it here.”

“Trash bag, trash bag… Five-oh-three…” He was starting to panic, worry getting to him.

“Hurry, Calvin,” the Angelmaker pleaded, and knew he would.

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