Within the Basement Walls (A Ghosts of Landover Mystery Book 6) by Etta Faire

Author:Etta Faire [Faire, Etta]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-02-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Doctor Kyle and Mister Hide

I called Justin on my way to the emergency room, certain he would pick up this time. He didn’t. I bit back my irritation and somehow managed a polite voicemail.

“Just calling to let you know I got attacked by birds again, outside the diner, again,” I rambled into the phone as I turned down the main street toward Landover Hospital. “I’m fine but I’m heading to the E.R. right now. If you want to meet me there, great. If not, I completely understand.”

My voice sounded eerily similar to my mother’s guilt trip voice there at the end.

I clicked off and stared at the phone, expecting him to call me right back, then threw my foot onto the gas pedal when he didn’t.

Just like before, there was hardly anyone waiting in the emergency room, so I was seen right away. And, just like before, it was Dr. Kyle.

“You again?” He chuckled, like it was funny to be attacked by birds, twice in the same week. “Are you sure you didn’t accidentally hurt one of those crows? Or, disturb their nest or something? You seem to have rustled some feathers.”

I token laughed at his joke, even though my arm was bloody, and I was trying not to freak out that my boyfriend hadn’t called me back yet. “If I did rustle some feathers, I don’t remember, but maybe. It happened at the diner again, so that’s one place I won’t be going anymore.”

His smile faded into concern. “Probably for the best. No offense, but you’ve got the whole town stirred up with the first bird attack. I don’t know what people are going to say when they find out about this one.”

“No offense either, Dr. Kyle, but I actually had nothing to do with either bird attack. I didn’t provoke this.”

“Mmmm-hmmm,” Dr. Kyle said in the same tone Rosalie had used earlier. I didn’t appreciate it now either.

The cleaning solution he was using stung and I flinched a little. He hardly noticed or looked up. “My parents have a summer place on the lake. They live in Illinois, but they visit us every year. They just got here and they’re already heading back. They barely had time to see the baby.” He shook his head. “I never knew they were so superstitious.”

“They’re leaving just because of a bird attack, that I did not in any way provoke?”

He nodded. “I tried to talk some sense into them. My dad knows corvids sometimes attack people who give them a good reason to.”

“Which is why he knows this attack is so strange, because there was no reason.”

“And, he couldn’t stop talking about it the whole time at dinner after your first attack.” He poured more stingy stuff on my cuts. “My mother thinks it’s a sign. A bad omen.” His tone made me know he was blaming me.

“And what do you think?”

“I think they’re being ridiculous.” He turned my arm this way and that, in much the same way his father studied my injuries the last time.

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