by Nancy Bush
“Stop that,” she ordered as she headed to the kitchen and filled a teakettle with water. No champagne this Valentine’s Day. Tea would be just fine.
When she returned to the living room, Ringo was sitting on his haunches, but his eyes were still fixed on something outside the window.
Becca tried to woo him to sit on the couch beside her, but when she went to pick him up, he sidled away and paced in front of the glass. Unnerved by the dog, she picked up the paper and slid it from its plastic sleeve. Her eye fell on a picture of a statue. The Madonna inside the maze at St. Elizabeth’s. The bold headline read: BOYS DISCOVER HUMAN SKELETON INSIDE MAZE.
She inhaled in shock.
The teakettle shrieked.
Becca bit back a scream, sending Ringo into frenzied barking. It took long moments before she could calm the dog and her own rocketing pulse enough to actually read the article.
When she was finished, she stared at the rivulets of rain running down her window but her thoughts were far from this miserable Valentine’s Day, her deceased husband, and whatever had spooked Ringo. Her mind was in the past.
For she knew the skeletal remains belonged to Jessie Brentwood, the girl from her visions, the friend from high school who’d disappeared without a trace, the girlfriend of Hudson Walker, Becca’s own secret crush and the father of Becca’s unborn child, had he but known it.
Jezebel “Jessie” Brentwood. She’d come to Becca in a dream today. She’d said something. Something important. While the wind had tossed her hair and she’d eased her toes over the edge of the cliff. It meant something. Something Becca needed to understand.
“Jessie…” she said aloud.
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