Doll's Eyes by Wood Bari

Author:Wood, Bari [Wood, Bari]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction.Dark Fantasy/Supernatural, Fiction.Horror, Fiction.Mystery/Detective, Fiction.Thriller/Suspense
ISBN: 9780688124403
Publisher: Morrow
Published: 1993-07-01T00:00:00+00:00

“Scared?” Adam asked gently.

Ellen Baines nodded.

Any minute orderlies would come and take her to four, where Shelley Stem would perform a simple hysterectomy for stage-one, grade-one cervical cancer.

But the orderlies might be late, she might have to wait half an hour before the anesthesiologist got to her. No reason to let her suffer.

He prepared a pre-op jolt of Librium, slipped the needle in and out, then rubbed the injection site.

“God, you’re good at that,” she said.

He’d practiced on a grapefruit before he’d ever given his first shot, then on himself with B12. He hated doing anything half-assed.

“I’m going to miss spring,” she said. She wasn’t whining; she never whined.

He pulled over the visitor’s chair and sat next to the bed. “It’s not spring, El, it’s fly season. They’ll be gone by the time you get out, then it will be spring and you can plant your garden.”

“Already planted it,” she said thickly. “Peas anyway. Hope they don’t rot.”

“They won’t,” Adam said gently.

She tried to nod, her hands slid to her sides, she closed her eyes and drifted. Adam drifted too, thinking about David Latovsky. He’d have a gun he knew how to use, but wouldn’t be expecting the nice young doctor from Glenvale General to pull a Python on him. Maybe he’d fall apart the way Bunner had. Bunner would have told Adam her name or anything else he knew, but the lieutenant could be made of sterner stuff.

Adam didn’t know what he’d do then.

The main thing was not to kill the lieutenant before he got what he wanted out of him. The second main thing was not to shoot him in the face the way he had Bunner. That had been horrible.

The orderlies arrived and Adam got out of their way. They stood on either side of the bed, and one, with Ben on his name tag, bent over Ellen. “Mizz Baines? Think you can give us a little help here?”

Her eyes opened. She stared blearily at them and tried to nod.

“Just kind of shift with us, okay?”

“Okay,” she whispered. They wrapped the sheet around her, then Ben said, “Now,” and they shifted her quickly and expertly onto the gurney.

“Thank you,” she said as if they’d just done her a huge favor. Ben grinned at her and she smiled dreamily at him and closed her eyes.

They wheeled her out into the hall and Adam followed. Ellsworth Harris, chief of staff, was coming down the hall and stopped.

“Whatcha got, Adam?” he asked.

“Early uterine carcinoma for Stem.”

“Mmmmmm.”

The elevator door opened, sending a shaft of white light across the floor in front of the nurses’ station.

“Terrible thing about Bunner,” Harris said.

“Terrible,” Adam echoed. The orderly, Ben, gave Adam a thumbs up, meaning he’d wait with her until they were ready, not just leave her in the hall. Nice of him. They wheeled the gumey in, the doors closed, and Adam thought, Good luck, Ellen... good luck.

“You going to the funeral?” Harris asked.

“Sure.”

It would be his first chance to get a look at the lieutenant.

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