Mercy_Queen’s Birds of Prey by Kathi S. Barton

Author:Kathi S. Barton [Barton, Kathi S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: World Castle Publishing, LLC
Published: 2019-01-05T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Saul waited outside the hotel off and on for two days. Nothing. Not even a bottle of water from Joel. What the hell was he thinking?

“He’s not, that’s what he’s doing. Not thinking of me out here all by myself without nary a drink and nothing to fill by belly.” If he wasn’t going to do it all the time, Saul thought to himself, he shouldn’t have started it. “Bastard.”

But he did have a plan in place now. He knew just where the kid was every Monday and Wednesday. She was driven right by his place on her way to the hospital. Saul figured that she’d need to be cleaned out or something. He didn’t know what was wrong with her, other than she was in a chair all the time, but he figured that no one would want to clean up her mess she’d have to be making in that chair all the time.

Looking out the broken window frame, he looked at his cell phone when she went by. She’d be back by this way in two hours and ten minutes. Saul had it all planned out, too. He just needed a gun. And he had until Wednesday to find one. Then things would start looking up for him.

When his brother didn’t show up for the fifth day in a row, Saul made his way into town. He had a few bucks now. It hadn’t occurred to him to rob the vending machine of the coins in it. The only problem with the money he had on him was that it weighed his pants down. And with him not having much in the way of a decent meal in a while, his pants no longer fit as they had before. He figured that he’d lost a good thirty pounds, weight that he could barely afford.

The walk did him some good, he supposed. He found an apple tree right off the road that was full of the nice ripe fruit. Also, there was a peach tree, he thought, but there wasn’t anything on it worth the trouble. The fruit was about as big as one of the quarters in his pocket, and hard as a stone.

“All this eating of good things is sure making me cleaned out too.” Laughing at his own little joke, he thought of what his body had been up to the last week or so.

Saul had noticed that he was abundantly thirsty all the time. It made him glad that he’d saved one of the water bottles that Joel had brought him, so that he could carry it around all the time.

His vision was messing up too. Just last night he’d not even been able to see the article on the newspapers he’d been spreading out for the kid. He was going to have to get that checked out before long, he told himself.

Turning his back to the road, he thought of how much he was peeing lately. And how he figured that it was due to the drinking water all the time.

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