River Bodies (Northampton County Book 1) by Karen Katchur

Author:Karen Katchur [Katchur, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781503902398
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Published: 2018-11-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

The sparse patches of hair that had stuck up on Becca’s father’s head had fallen out. Pieces lay on the pillow. A few strands sprinkled the tops of his shoulders. His eyebrows, once dark and fierce, were thin and gray. The five-o’clock shadow, the scruff that most women had found attractive, according to her mother, had vanished completely. His skin was dry and blotchy and paper-thin. The crevices around his mouth and eyes made him appear to be a much older man of seventy or eighty rather than a man of sixty.

His hand, bent and misshapen, resting at his side, twitched. His fingers and wrist were nothing but bone. When she’d been a little girl, she’d feared his hands, big and strong, gripping her upper arms, scolding her for sneaking into the basement and playing with his fishing lures, fearing she could’ve been injured by their sharp hooks.

“Dad,” she said.

He opened his eyes for a second and closed them again.

The phone rang. She thought about answering it, but after two rings it stopped. Jackie must’ve picked it up, not wanting to disturb them.

“Dad,” she whispered. “I need to talk with you.”

He turned his head away. Jackie opened the door.

“Becca,” she said. “You have a phone call.”

The last person to call her here had been Parker. “I’ll be back,” she said to her father and rose from the chair to take the call on the kitchen phone, thinking maybe Parker could answer some of her questions. But she would have to be careful not to say too much to him, not to appear too interested. She wasn’t ready to divulge what she had seen by the river, not until she was sure she understood it herself.

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