Secret Billionaire Returns on Christmas novel · Chapter 16 of 24
Chapter 16: Heat on the Hill
Caleb came out of the hospital call with his face shut.
Hazel was better, the nurse said, and asleep, and Frank was driving back to sit by her bed.
Nothing else was better.
"I need to be somewhere with no walls," Caleb said.
"I know a place."
"You've been here two days."
"Hazel's truck is behind the church, with the key in the visor," I said.
"And the candle seller told me where the kids go to park."
He looked at me, and for the first time since the cell, the corner of his mouth moved.
The quarry lookout was a gravel shelf at the top of a switchback road, with a rail and nothing past it.
Below us the old pit had flooded into a black lake.
The lights of Harlow Creek lay beyond it, tiny and gold, with one dark steeple in the middle.
I backed the truck in so the windshield faced the drop and cut the engine.
Snow ticked on the glass.
The bench seat smelled of cough drops and old vinyl, and the heater ran in a rattling, hopeful way.
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