The Leaving by Tara Altebrando

Author:Tara Altebrando [Altebrando, Tara]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781408877791
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-06-09T22:00:00+00:00

Scarlett

It didn’t seem like the worst place to go to die.

Palms and blooming shrubs. Pathways winding down to a park on the waterfront with benches and still more palm trees and a few small fountains—a kneeling stone woman pouring water onto stone flowers from a jug, a small petrified birdbath replete with immobilized birds.

Scarlett imagined herself old, in an Adirondack chair, listening to the fountains’ trickles, then wondered about where this Adirondack chair obsession of hers had come from.

She had parked the car facing the Gulf.

The whole of it was shiny and gray, like dolphin skin.

“What’s our plan?” she asked as they approached the double glass doors of the main building.

“We’re friends of the family,” Lucas said.

“No, really.” She stopped walking.

He stopped, too. “Yes, really.” He tilted his head toward the door in encouragement, totally confident.

But then . . .

/ / / /

What if they’d been kept here?

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