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Chapters (65)
  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Notice
  3. Dedication
  4. One
  5. Two
  6. Three
  7. Four
  8. Five
  9. Six
  10. Seven
  11. Eight
  12. Nine
  13. Ten
  14. Eleven
  15. Twelve
  16. Thirteen
  17. Fourteen
  18. Fifteen
  19. Sixteen
  20. Seventeen
  21. Eighteen
  22. Nineteen
  23. Twenty
  24. Twenty–one
  25. Twenty–two
  26. Twenty–three
  27. Twenty–four
  28. Twenty–five
  29. Twenty–six
  30. Twenty–seven
  31. Twenty–eight
  32. Twenty–nine
  33. Thirty
  34. Thirty–one
  35. Thirty–two
  36. Thirty–three
  37. Thirty–four
  38. Thirty–five
  39. Thirty–six
  40. Thirty–seven
  41. Thirty–eight
  42. Thirty–nine
  43. Forty
  44. Forty–one
  45. Forty–two
  46. Forty–three
  47. Forty–four
  48. Forty–five
  49. Forty–six
  50. Forty–seven
  51. Forty–eight
  52. Forty–nine
  53. Fifty
  54. Fifty–one
  55. Fifty–two
  56. Fifty–three
  57. Fifty–four
  58. Fifty–five
  59. Fifty–six
  60. Fifty–seven
  61. Author’s Note
  62. Acknowledgments
  63. Also by Becky Masterman
  64. About the Author
  65. Newsletter Sign-up

The two kept stumbling over the uneven ground until they were a good one hundred yards away. They looked kind of small but we could still see them. I expected them to start bending over, like they were picking up bottles, but they did not.

I looked on the back seat and said to Perry that they did not take the sack with them, but Perry did not answer.

I watched the kid take Granddad’s arm off his shoulder, and sit him down on the ground. He turned around and he waved at us, watching him. Then he started to walk back to the car.

I asked what do you think that kid is doing?

Perry said he had no idea.

I started up the car. Something gave me the “heebie jeebies” about that kid before now, and the feeling was getting worse.

Perry put out his hand to stop me from putting the car in gear. He said wait for the kid.

I said why? Why are we waiting for him? I said we should get as far away from him as fast as we can.

Perry said we’re a hundred miles from nowhere, we could not just leave him here.

Well, my mouth dropped open at that one. Perry did not seem to get that he was saying we could not do to the kid what the kid was doing to his grandfather. Perry just stared at me with his eyes wide and a little smile. His eyes glittered like the bottles in sunlight. I did not think I could talk any sense into Perry, so I tried getting him to view the business end of the deal. I was spitting mad but I tried to keep calm like Perry was.

I said I did not put in for three of us, Honey. I called him Honey not because I am queer, but because I always knew he was and he liked me to call him that. It made it easier to get him to do things my way. Plus he was always saying he thought I liked little girls which is untrue. Calling him Honey got back at him a little. Anyways, I said ten thousand split three ways isn’t much worth the drive to Holcomb.

Perry said that poor kid, what else can he do? He’s got nowhere to go, no one but us. Now that his grandfather is gone, that kid is all alone. It’s like we’re his family.

I said do you hear what you’re saying Perry? That poor kid is alone because he’s killing his own grand-dad.

Perry said he isn’t actually killing him, Dick. You can see that yourself.

I said he left him in that field to die, that’s even worse.

Perry said Dick, that man was pretty sick. He’ll probably be dead before evening.

I said you can’t know that.