Hold My Heart (The Heart Series Book 1) by Esther M. Soto

Author:Esther M. Soto
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Dueling Squirrels, LLC
Published: 2014-12-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

After twenty minutes on the road, we finally reach the farm. We drive past and continue down the dirt road, Doc following behind in his car. I’m anxious to see what we can find but mostly, I’m worried about finding nothing at all. Would that mean I’m stuck here forever? I can’t go there. Not yet.

After driving for about five minutes, Will pulls over by a field. The day is bright and sunny, and I can see the Shaw farmhouse in the distance. The roof of the house sticks out of the horizon where sky and land meet. If I didn’t know the house and barn outbuildings were out there, I wouldn’t even notice those tiny specks; with the bright sun, they look like some kind of mirage.

“Here we are,” Will says, the three of us getting out of the truck.

“This isn’t it.” We are parked by the dirt road, next to a field, but nowhere near the sea of tall grass and nothingness I remember.

“What do you mean?” Doc asks curiously. It takes me a moment to process what he says.

“I mean, this isn’t where I woke up. All I see is cornfields. There wasn’t any corn around where I woke up.”

Will clears up my confusion. “This is where I found you. I’m not sure where you woke up.” He walks over to some tire tracks at the edge of the road.

“Right here.” Will points at the ground as he kneels down, removing his fedora in the process. “You were lying right here, on your back.”

I kneel right next to Will and examine the ground carefully, hoping to find some clues. Anything at this point would help, but there’s nothing out of the ordinary. The tracks look old, the dirt already faded and dried up. The slight breeze brushes the cornstalks together softly, the sound similar to light rain, with occasional cricket chirps.

“There’s nothing here,” I say, rising back to my feet.

“Do you remember how far you walked, from which direction?” Doc asks. I close my eyes, and try to picture what I saw that day.

“Nothing. That’s the first thing I noticed. There was nothing. Just tall grass and a whole lot of nothing like a never-ending prairie field. I woke up disoriented and,” I try to think of the right word, “drained. I felt as if someone sucked all the energy out of me. That might be why I collapsed.”

“So, let’s say hypothetically you walked an hour,” Doc speculates. “Will, what’s out there,” he points away from the house, in all three directions, “an hour away on foot, would you say?”

“East or west would be neighboring farms. North…” Will’s expression is discomforting.

“What is it?” I ask. Doc and I exchange a look.

“Nothing,” Will replies almost in a whisper. “There’s nothing there.”

I take the lead once again. “Sounds like as good place as any to check out. Let's go.”

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We opt to take the truck instead of walking, since Will claims there isn’t so much as a path that far out.

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