Embrace the Wolf by Benjamin M. Schutz

Author:Benjamin M. Schutz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media

Chapter 16

The man pulled his car up opposite the church at 4:40 with a predator’s precision. When your prey is fleet, timing is of the essence. The priest did not appreciate the urgency of his mission. A lesson needed to be learned. The after-school church class would be dismissed soon as the church schedule on the front lawn promised. He waited patiently. The children flooded out from the church, the first ones met by their waiting parents who had places to be in a hurry. The rest broke off into groups in all directions. Then the torrent was a trickle, the last few stragglers of the flock, the lambs of God.

He saw the one he wanted: a boy, carefully dressed. He was flipping pages of music. He would be a name, a face, a voice, a smile, a tousled head, a beloved pupil, a memory, and a dream.

The boy looked up and squinted into the sun, straightened his books, and bounded down the stairs. He walked up the tree-lined main street to the corner and turned left. The man in the car smiled. A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do. And he thought: Let’s see what your faith is now, Father.

He started the car, moved up the street, and then turned left, smoothly closing the gap between him and the boy. He pulled alongside, his window down, and said, “Excuse me, son, I wonder if you could help me. I’m trying to find the Beaufort Restoration. I seem to be a bit lost.” He picked up the map on the seat next to him, slid the open end of the handcuffs into his other palm, and freed the icepick from its cork tip. The boy walked over to the car, and as the man held the map out to him, he traced the route he wanted on the map.

He heard the click, but never knew what hit him.

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