Sylent Nyght by Amber Riel (best books to read for students .txt) 📕

Nyght shook her head again.  The questions were simple to answer and with her having experience from history she knew how to seem normal and not look too suspicious.  She also knew what kind of movements not to do which could signal to the police that she was simply lying to them.         

“Okay.  Did you kidnap a baby boy from the Willis’s?” While Cormick questioned the woman, he examined her expressions and body language just in case she was lying but nothing seemed off about the mute and she seem to be telling the truth.  There was only one thing that would let him know for show if she was the mute murderer.         

Nyght shook her head for the third time.  Raymond arrived back into the room and handed a small plastic cup of water to Leanna.         

“Thank you,” the young woman whispered.         

“You’re welcome,” the doctor replied, also whispering.         

“Okay,” Cormick spoke, keeping his eyes on Nyght.  “One more before we go….”         

Nyght nodded.         

“Can I see the right side of your head?”         

Nyght kind of glanced at Raymond.  Her husband nodded.  Her eyes moved back toward the cop.  The movement in her eyes was too quick for the human to catch the exchange between the woman and her husband.  She nodded and stood up.  She moved over toward the cop while she moved her hair out of the way.         

Cormick looked at the side of the woman’s head.  “Okay.  Thank you for your time, ma’am….” He stood up.  “Sorry for the inconvenience.”         

Nyght moved away from the man while the young woman stood up.         

“Well we better get going.  It was nice meeting you, Nyght.  Good seeing you again, Raymond.”  Cormick and Leanna left.         

Raymond watched from the window while the cops headed toward a car.  “It’s a good thing that hole from the gun shot healed itself over night because we’d be in big trouble.”

Cormick and Leanna worked their way toward Cormick’s small black car.  “Well,” Cormick said, “she’s not the murderer.”         

“Really?” Leanna asked, smiling with relief.       

“Yea… I figured that if she was the murderer, she would have a bullet hole in her head.  Remember where the murderer shot herself in the head?”         

“Yea.”          

“Well, she didn’t have a bullet hole in her head.  This just means it’s going to be a while before we catch the murderer though.”

Raymond and Nyght sat in the living room, waiting for the right moment before they could leave the town for a few weeks. 

Raymond placed the small grey car seat in the back seat of the car.  He took the buckle for the seat and used it to keep the car seat from moving freely while he drove.  Once he finished, he stepped out of Nyght’s way and let her place the baby into the car seat, buckling him up.  Rocky jumped into the car, letting Raymond and Nyght know that he was ready to go.  The puppy walked over to the baby and began sniffing him.         

“Aww…. Look at that,” Raymond spoke while he watched the dog, “Rocky’s bonding with the baby.”         

Nyght smiled.         

Raymond glanced around, relieved that none of the other neighbors were outside to notice them leave with the Willis’s baby.  “We better get going.  Do you want to sit with the baby?  Make sure that he’s okay?”  

Nyght nodded.         

“Alright, then get in.”         

The woman climbed into the back next to the baby while Rocky moved over to the other side of the car seat.         

Raymond closed the door for Nyght then climbed into the driver’s side of the car.  He closed his door.  “Here we go.”  He placed the key into the ignition then started the car and slowly backed out of the driveway.

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At the police station, Evlyn walked in wearing a wide bubbly smile on her face.  Leanna couldn’t help but notice how happy her friend had seemed and wanted to know what had happen.  She raised an eye brow with a questioning look on her face.  “Well someone’s happy.  Why you all smiley today, Evlyn?”         

“Me and Riley had our first kiss,” Evlyn replied.  “I can’t stop smiling.”         

“Aww…. Oh guess what?”         

“What?” Evlyn asked, snapping out of the daze.         

“Me and Cormick were at the Millers earlier today and remember how you said that you thought they had something to deal with the murders?”         

“Yea.”         

“Well you were wrong.  Cormick questioned Nyght and he even looked at the right side of her head and there wasn’t any sign of the bullet hole.”         

“Oh…. Man, I thought for sure that they were working together.  That’s going to take forever, looking for a woman with a bullet hole in her head.  We’re looking for homicide maniac Cinderella.”         

“If the bullet fits, then she’s it.”         

They laughed.         

“You know this shouldn’t be funny.  We shouldn’t laugh.  There’s a murderer out there and we’re making jokes about it.  That’s not saying much about us now is it?”         

“Yea…. That is horrible but we can’t help it,” Evlyn replied.

Raymond stopped at a red light.  He looked around, waiting.  It took a few minutes for the light to change after the computer system in the lights indicated that there weren’t really any other cars.  “Now,” he began, “we’re going on vacation at least that’s what we’re…. Well I’m going to tell the people we meet.  I want you to figure out how to disguise the baby so that way if the news shows pictures of him no one will recognize him.  It’s important that they don’t know who he is.  I’m going to say his name’s Alex.  If they hear his name that might get them to start asking questions.  Something we don’t need.”  He looked into the rearview mirror, locking his eyes onto Nyght.  “Got it, honey?”         

Nyght nodded.         

“Okay, good.”         

Rocky barked and Raymond kind of smiled.

Evlyn sat down behind her desk.  Cormick walked out of his office and over to her.  She was the person he needed to see at the moment.  He knew about her assumption and figured it was best she knew the results.  “Did Leanna tell you that we talked to the Millers?” Cormick asked.         

“Yea she told me.  They’re clean.”         

Cormick kind of laughed.  “Don’t sound so disappointed.”         

Evlyn kind of smiled at the man’s words.  “Okay, boss.”         

His expression and voice quickly changed to a serious mood.  “Oh and next time you say that someone did a crime they didn’t commit; you might want to keep it to yourself because they could sue you for that…. You know that right, Evlyn?”         

“Yes, sir.”         

Cormick walked away without another word.

Chris walked into the building with Jayden, laughing.  They each were switching jokes and stories.  The two friends were taking a break from the seriousness of the situation with the murderer, seeing that they had lost sleep and a sense of reality.  “Oh yea,” Chris said.  “I got a riddle for ya.  Here it is: Early this morning, late last night.  Two dead boys got up to fight.  Back to back, they faced each other.  Pulled their swords and shot each other.  One deaf cop heard the noise, got up to chase the boys.  If you don’t believe my stories true, ask the blind man.  He saw it too.”         

“Man,” Jayden replied.  “That’s so old.  My dad told that to me a long time ago and his dad told him that when he was younger and his dad told him and so on and so on.”         

“Hey, I thought it was pretty good.”         

“It’s lame, Chris,” Leanna told him, catching the little riddle.  “You want to hear a good riddle?”         

“Okay what?”         

“An idiot walks into work without realizing that he stepped in dog crap, what does he do?”         

“I don’t know.  What?”         

“Okay.  Look at the bottom of your shoe.”         

“Wha---?” Chris lifted up his left foot and spotted the sickening mess on the bottom of his shoe.  “Oh crap.”         

Jayden covered his nose.  “I knew something smelled funky.”         

“You might want to clean that up, Chris,” Leanna told him.

Raymond and Nyght made their way into a hotel room, followed by Rocky.  Nyght carried the baby and looked around.  The room was small but deceit size with two full size beds and a small round table sitting next to the long shade covered window.         

“Good thing they aloud pets,” Raymond said.  “It’s hard to find places where you can actually have your pets with you, unless you’re blind but that’s different.  You might want to give,” he began pointing to the baby, “him a bath.  Clean him up then play around with his hair.  That way they can keep their questions to themselves.  I’m going to bring Rocky for a walk so he can do what he needs to.  Oh yea, you might want to check Stephan’s diaper as well.  He might need to be…. Well if you give him a bath…. Oh whatever…. It’s been a long time since we had a baby, I can’t remember what needs to be done besides feeding him and cleaning him up.”         

Nyght smiled.         

“I’ll be back.  I’m going to bring Rocky for a walk.”  The man briefly kissed his wife’s cheek.  “See ya when we get back.  Come on, Rocky.  Let’s go for a walk.”         

The puppy rushed to the door, excited.  His little puppy tail wagged while he waited for Raymond.  The doctor and the dog left while Nyght carried the baby to the bathroom and turned on the nods to the tub.  She made sure that the cold water was running more than the hot water so the baby wouldn’t get burnt.  She prepared the toddler for the bath and even checked his diaper just in case.

Later that night Nyght sat on the bed further from the window, holding the baby in her arms.  Raymond walked in with the baby’s play pin.  “I figured he can sleep in this.  It actually is like a crib.”  He placed the folded up play pin on the floor and began to unfold it.  “Do you ever