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“Unfortunately,” I grumbled as Crimson appeared from between the racks of clothes.
“Why do you sound like you’re going to your death instead of to a fun place?” Coffey asked as he started to shove clothes off the floor into the first basket we’d given him.
“Because it might be the death of me,” I pointed out.
It wouldn’t.
Hopefully.
Right?
“It’s a water park, loser,” Hades groused as she came into the room. “It’s not that bad.”
Said the person that didn’t have a fear of heights.
“Actually,” a small voice said from the other side of the room, where, I didn’t know. “According to Google, in 2016 there were twenty-two deaths and thirty-thousand injuries at amusement parks.”
I looked around for the owner of that voice but came up empty.
“Who was that?” Hades asked.
“I’m Briley.”
Briley.
The football player’s daughter.
I went around a few racks of clothing and finally found Briley.
She was tucked up in a corner, munching on an apple, and flicking through her iPad.
My gaze went to the iPad in her hands and my gaze skirted over the screen.
“What’s that one about?” I asked curiously.
It was an article that had a crying woman on the cover of it.
“Ninety minutes after the debut opening of the Emerald Plunge, a ten-year-old boy zoomed down one of the park’s slides. Three stories. He flew off the edge near the bottom, scraped across the concrete on his back, and was rushed to the hospital,” she read to me.
I shook my head. “Wow.”
“This one is worse,” she took another bite of her apple, chewed, then swallowed. “A cable broke at an amusement park in Kentucky. One of those ones that plunges down, you know?”
I nodded at her. “Yeah.”
“The cables were whipping this way and that, and one girl said she started smelling something burning. When she looked down, she saw that her feet had been amputated by the whipping cable, and the burning was her flesh,” she explained.
“All right.” Hades came to a stop beside the girl. “No more reading those, or I’ll never get my twin sister to do anything fun again.”
Briley looked at me as if she was asking if I wanted her to stop.
Damn, I liked this kid.
“Where did you come from?” I wondered.
“I invited her,” Crimson answered. “She was about to go on a run with her dad and to save her from that torture, I told her she could stay with me.”
I looked more closely at the girl. “Do you often go on runs with your dad?”
