Kill Decision(154)

“Can you loan me your phone for a second?”

“Oh, to call your brothers? Of course. My God, they’re going to be so, so happy. . . .” He reached into his jacket pocket and passed her his phone.

McKinney took it, cocked her arm back, and threw it into the very center of the nearby pond, sending the ducks into flight.

Her father looked at her, and then to the pond, in utter confusion. “What on earth did you do that for?”

She looped her arms under her father’s and Odin’s elbows and started them along the path. “Let’s just call it a precaution.” McKinney grinned as her father still looked back, puzzled.

They passed under a tree branch on which two ravens perched. The birds fluffed up their feathers and let out a loud caw as they closely watched the humans below.