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Chapter 196: The Nineteenth
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Xena"Stay behind me," Dante said, low and tense, as I stepped out onto the porch anyway. "I mean it, Xena.""I heard you," I whispered, my fingers knotted so tight in the back of his coat that the seam pulled. "I'm not letting you walk over there alone."Across the street, a dark car sat under a bare maple. Its engine hummed. The windows were fogged, and all I could see was the shape of one person in the driver's seat.Dante went down the steps first. I followed so close that my forehead almost touched his shoulder. My heart pounded hard enough that I could feel it in my throat. Halfway across the street, the driver's door swung open."Please don't hit me," Okafor called, an alarm making his voice crack as he climbed out with both hands raised. "I'm too old, and this coat was expensive."My knees nearly folded under me. I grabbed Dante's arm with both hands and hung on until my legs held again."Okafor," I said, half laughing and half ready to throw something at him. "It's two in the
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Xena"A car," Cassandra said, her voice flat and quiet. "A gray sedan, parked across the street with a man sitting in it."Foster stood over her chair with his fists closed at his sides. He didn't move closer, and he didn't step back."A man," he repeated, hoarse. "What man?""I never learned his name." Cassandra's hands lay still on the blanket now, the shaking gone. "He was there every morning for three weeks. He never got out. He never knocked. He drank coffee from a paper cup and watched our front door."Dante's hand stopped moving on my back. I set Thomas's letter on the cushion beside me, face up, because my fingers had started to crease it."Did Thomas see him?" I asked carefully, keeping my voice low."He saw him on the fourth day." Cassandra turned her head toward the window, where the curtains were drawn. "He asked me who it was. I told him it was probably someone waiting for the Pruitts next door. He believed me, because he had no reason not to."Foster made a low, rough so
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Xena."You actually came," Foster said, holding the door open with one hand and a folded sheet of yellowed paper with the other. "I didn't think you would.""She asked us to," I answered quietly, stepping in out of the cold. "Before she hung up."Dante came in behind me and shut the door. Foster looked at him for a long second. Dante held still and let him look. Then Foster stepped aside to let him pass.Cassandra sat in the chair by the window, a blanket over her knees and an empty cup on the table beside her. She looked smaller than she had four days ago. Her hands were folded in her lap, but her thumbs kept moving against each other."Sit, both of you," she said, her voice worn thin. "I won't have anyone looming over me in my own house."Dante took the end of the sofa nearest the door. I sat beside him, close enough that our knees touched. Foster stayed on his feet in the middle of the rug, the paper held against his chest."You said it was a cold," he said to his mother, the words
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Xena."It's Xena, sweetheart," Cassandra said, her voice going soft in a way I had never heard from her. "Go back to bed.""At one in the morning?" Foster asked, suspicion sharpening the sleep out of him. "Nobody calls anybody at one in the morning with good news."Dante's hand tightened around mine. On the screen between us, the call timer kept counting, one second after another."Give me the phone, Mom," Foster said, closer now, firm in a way that left no room for her to argue.There was a rustle, then a muffled bump, as if the phone had knocked against the arm of a chair. When his voice came back, it was right against the speaker."Xena," he said, low and tight. "Is this about Herald? Did he change his mind?"I looked at Dante. He gave me one small nod, and I let out the breath I had been holding."He said yes," I told Foster, choosing each word before I let it go. "He'll see you. That part is real."The sound that came down the line was half a laugh and half a cough. Then it stopp
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Xena."Pick up. Come on, pick up," I muttered, pressing the phone so hard against my ear that the case bit into my cheek.The line rang once, then clicked over to Okafor's breathing, close and a little winded."Sorry," he said, the apology clipped short by the hour. "I walked into the kitchen and lost the signal. This building eats calls.""The date, Okafor," I said, too sharp to bother with hello."The nineteenth." He paused, his voice dropping lower. "Earliest possible. It could slide later. It won't slide earlier, if the clerk's right, and clerks are right more often than wardens."I counted on my fingers under the table without meaning to. Dante watched my hand do it."Eleven days," I whispered, my fingers still folded against my palm."Eleven days," Okafor agreed, flat and careful. "After that, Herald's three hundred miles north. Every visit becomes a full day in a car for a woman who may not have many full days left to spend that way."Dante's thumb stopped moving against my knu
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