Brian by Kathi S. Barton

Author:Kathi S. Barton [Barton, Kathi S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-07-11T22:21:33+00:00

Chapter 5

“We’re supposed to meet the couple at five-thirty. I don’t like this, Hankie. Things seem just a little off. And no matter how many times I go over the newspapers, there is no mention of anyone finding a little girl lost in there. Do you suppose she got killed off too?” Hank Mercer hated being called Hankie. Like he was some kind of tissue or something. But it did him little good to tell her that. She’d call him that twice as much if he were to mention it again. “Hankie, are you listening to me? I said—”

“I heard what you said, Lilith. Aggie hasn’t been found, and you think she might have been killed. See? I heard you. However, I don’t know what you expect me to do since you’ve done everything that could be done. Other than going to the police. I can see that now. ‘Hey, we dropped our daughter off at the mall a couple of months ago. She was too old to sell off to a couple that wanted babies, so we just disposed of her. Do you happen to know where she might have gone off to?’ Is that what you want me to do?” She told him not to be snarky. “What I want to know is, why do you figure that if someone doesn’t answer you within five seconds of you asking them something that they’re not paying attention. I don’t get it. I was. I don’t know what happened to her. Nor do I care. Does that satisfy your questions?”

“Well, who shit in your breakfast?” Standing up, he left her sitting in the little restaurant they’d come to for something to eat. He had wanted to try everything on the menu. Then she’d started yapping and had spoiled it for him.

They were going to have to sell off another kid before too much longer. They liked having money, and other than getting a job, this was the way it was working for them. As he sat on the bench about five blocks from where he’d left Lilith, he began his usual cruising to see if someone wasn’t as attentive of their children as they should have been. He watched one woman dealing with a toddler and an infant in a stroller while she tried to order herself a coffee.

None of the children were his that they had. Not even the couple of dozen that they’d sold off were his. Hank wasn’t able to father children. And luckily, Lilith wasn’t able to carry them full term. If any of the children had ever been like her, he would have left her decades ago. She was off her noodle, and if she didn’t take her meds daily, she would get out of hand and destroy all their hard work.

It was hard work too. Not only did they have to catch a parent off guard to get a child or two, but they also had to take care of the thing until they were able to sell it off.

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