Moonstone by Helen Hardt

Author:Helen Hardt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hardt & Sons

24

Luke

My phone buzzes at eight a.m., just as I’m about to leave for a jog.

My heart skips. It’s Katelyn!

“Hi, Katelyn,” I say into the phone.

“Hi, Luke.”

“To what do I owe this pleasure?”

“I was wondering…if you could do something for me.”

“Of course. What do you need?”

“First of all, are you working tonight?”

“Yeah.”

“What time?”

“I go in at five.”

She pauses a moment. “Good. Could you take me somewhere around one o’clock?”

“Sure. Where?”

Another pause. Then, “Atticus Prison.”

The phone slides out of my hand and hits the hardwood with a clatter. I hastily pick it up and glue it back to my ear.

“I’m going to need a little more information.”

“I have to see my cousin. His name is Anthony. He’s in prison there.”

“Oh.” Relief sweeps through me. A cousin. I can deal with that. “Of course.”

“I got on his visitor’s list, and I have to go at one because my aunt is going this morning. I don’t want to disturb their time. But visitation is over at two, and I want at least an hour. I just need you to take me. They won’t let us both go in. I just don’t… I don’t want to go alone.”

“I understand.” I wouldn’t want to go to a prison alone either.

I came a hair’s breadth away from a lifetime in one.

In fact, if anyone other than Katelyn were asking me to do this, the answer would be not only no, but hell no.

“I’ll get a cab and come get you.”

“You don’t have a car?”

“No one has a car in New York, Katelyn.”

“Oh. Yeah. Of course. But a cab’s so expensive. It’s upstate. About an hour away.”

“I know where it is. Don’t worry. It’s on me.”

“I couldn’t.”

“You didn’t. I offered.”

“I have money, Luke.”

“So do I, and I can’t think of anything better to spend it on than an afternoon with you.” True words. Even a cab ride to a prison sounds good if Katelyn is involved.

“I’ll be at your place around eleven. Sound good? Will that give us enough time?”

“Yeah. I think so. I’ll eat an early lunch.”

“Better yet, you and I will go to lunch beforehand. Name the place.”

“I’m still new here. I don’t know any places other than The Glass House and that Italian place we went to.”

“Good enough. I’ll walk to your place, we’ll find a place for early lunch, and then we’ll hail a cab and get to the prison.”

“All right.” I almost hear a smile in her voice. “Thank you, Luke.”

“You’re welcome. See you soon.”

My day is suddenly better.

I’m going to see Katelyn today.

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