Abby's Heart (Bryant Station Curves) Read Free

started drilling a hole into it.
    The wall made several strange popping and cracking noises as he drilled through it, but not one chunk fell.  After several minutes, the drill bit broke through the other side of the wall. Billy stepped back and put the drill down. “You want me to do that?” he asked Abby.
    “I’ve got it.” She stepped forward and slowly pushed the pen camera into the opening Billy had made. The wall made several loud pops.
    “Abby get away from the wall!”
    She heard Billy’s warning and looked up. Abby dropped the pen camera and jumped back just as the wall fell, burying her under bricks and plaster.

     
    Chapter 2
     
    Skylar put the file into the file cabinet and closed the drawer. He looked around the office. His desk was finally clear of paperwork and receipts. It had only taken him all morning, but it was done.
    “I really need to hire a new secretary to take care of all the paperwork,” he said aloud. “Too bad she’s not here to put the notice in the newspaper.”
    He grabbed his yellow hardhat off the top of the file cabinet and plopped it onto his head. Without another look back, he opened the door and stepped out of the trailer that served as his office on construction sites. Closing and locking the door, Skylar went down the steps.
    He took a deep breath and looked up at the sky as he slowly let it out. He really hated being cooped up inside with paperwork. Skylar looked around the construction site. The apartment buildings were in various stages of completion. The whole place buzzed with activity.
    Skylar smiled. “This is where I belong, outside in the middle of the action.”
    We belong with our mate.
    Skylar sighed. She ran away from us.
    Not we. You. She ran away from you because of what you did, growled his bear.
    It doesn’t matter who she ran away from, all that matters is that she is gone.
    You were stupid. We could have our mate and cubs. You should have gone after her.
    I tried, said Skylar.
    You tried when it was too late. You may not want our mate, but I do. His bear growled and swatted at Skylar’s ribs.
    Quit that and settle down.
    Find our mate!
    I couldn’t find her then, what makes you think I could find her now? It has been fifteen years.
    Find our mate. His bear raked his claws across Skylar’s insides causing him to almost double over from the pain.
    Go lay down now. Too many years have passed. Our mate is gone. We just have to deal with that fact.
    His bear made an odd, lonely grunt. It shook its massive head at Skylar before it turned its back to the man.
    Skylar sighed. It had been years since he stupidly lost his mate. It was bad enough that he blamed himself, but his bear refused to speak of anything except finding their mate. Skylar wished he knew where to look. He tried finding her right after she disappeared, but it was as if she had dropped off the face of the earth.
    “Hey Anderson, looks like you survived that mountain of papers,” said Jerry Morton, the new foreman Skylar hired a couple of months ago.
    “Don’t know about that. I’ve got a few paper cuts.” Skylar was glad for the distraction from the thoughts of his missing mate.
    “I hate to do this to you, but I’ve got more papers for you.” Jerry held out a handful of receipts and work orders.
    “Great, just what I wanted.”
    “It sucks running a company. You don’t have enough money to pay me to do it.” Jerry laughed. His entire body shook. “I’ll see you in a couple of hours.” He turned and walked away.
    “Fuck!” Skyler turned around and went back up the stairs. “Can this day get any worse?” He unlocked the door and went back inside the trailer, slamming the door behind him. He threw his hardhat on top of the file cabinet. It slid over the side and bounced across the floor. Skylar clenched his jaws. He closed his eyes and counted to ten. Between needing a secretary to deal with the mundane paperwork chores, the way his bear was acting, and his own buried