Chapter 15
Seth was in the back office when the bell on the over the door rang out and he heard footsteps walking around the shop, so he got up from the desk and made his way into the shop.
" Good morning can I . . . oh hey what brings you here?" Seth walks into the room and sees Preston heading over to the front counter.
" Morning, good to see you too, I came over here to see if Nathan was here or if you heard from him this morning?" Preston turned and looked at his cousin as he came over to the counter.
" Um . . . no I have not heard from him yet, he was supposed to call me early this morning to see about a part, but I have not heard from him yet." Seth gave his cousin a worried look, because he knew that this was not like for Nathan not to call in to see how things are going before he comes into the shop.
" That is not like him for not calling, he was going to stop at the restaurant for coffee about thirty minutes ago but he never showed up, and I have tried calling but no one answered." Preston also began to get worried that something is wrong.
" Well the part we are waiting for did not come in and I do have a feeling that something is very wrong, let me close up and I can go up to his place." Seth began writing something on a piece of paper and going over to the door and putting it onto the window.
" Um . . . I will go with you and I too have this very bad feeling that something has happen." Preston nodded as he watched Seth walk around the room turning off the lights and then going to back office and doing whatever it is that he does.
" Ok are you ready, we can take my vehicle it is out back." Seth came out of the office and shut and locked the door.
" Ok that sounds great, have you heard from your sister." Preston followed Seth out the back door and walked over to the Jeep as Seth locked the back door.
" Ok off to Nathan, yes she called me while she was on the way to the hospital, she is working the dayshift today, and will met us at dad's house to night for dinner." Seth started up the engine and began heading for Nathan's place just outside of town.
Twenty minutes later Seth pulled up to Nathan's house and when he and Preston stepped out of the Jeep they could tell that something was very wrong.
" Can you smell it?" Preston lifted his head and sniffed the air and smell the copper smell that was in the air.
" Yes, and something is wrong with the horses." Seth also lifted up his head and smelled the air and could smell what Preston was smelling and they could hear the horses in the stable neighing very nervously.
They approached the stables very carefully because they did not know what they would be walking into, as they came into the room they saw the four horses pacing and pawing the ground in their stalls.
" Something has gotten them very upset and the smell is coming from here . . . Oh no! Seth call 911!" Preston yelled out when he saw feet coming from the room that had some hay and oats for the horses.
" What the . . . on it." Seth pulled out his phone and began calling 911 as Preston went over to the body.
" Holy . . . Nathan it will be ok we are getting you help now, hang in there buddy, don't die on us now, we need you but most of all Bridgette needs you." Preston kneeled down next to Nathan and got a closer look at his friend and saw that his coat was nothing but blood and he has a feeling that if he removed the coat that Nathan would die right there.
" They are on the way Oh My . . . what the . . . Nathan!" Seth looked down and noticed that it was Nathan laying there in a huge pool of blood.
" Good, I don't think he will last long I hope that they get here quickly." Preston held Nathan's hand and could tell that he was going fast.
Five minutes later they heard the sirens coming down the long dirt drive way and Seth waved for them to pull up to the stables so it would make it easier to get Nathan out of the stable.
" What happen?" Lionel asked as he came up to Seth and Preston.
" We don't know we found him like this." Preston watched as they but Nathan's body into the ambulance.
" Ok and what made you two come out, man I really hate to tell Bridgette about Nathan." Lionel just shook his head as he too looked over to the body.
" Well I got worried when he did not call the shop this morning, he was supposed to call to make sure that we got a part for a car, and to let me know that he was coming into the shop too." Seth winced as he heard the doors on the ambulance close and it drove off without the siren going off.
" Ok and what about you?" Lionel turned his attention to Preston, and he saw tears welling up in his son's eyes as they watch the ambulance drove off with his friend's body.
" Um . . . Nathan was supposed to meet me at the restaurant for coffee this morning before he went to work early this morning but he never showed up . . . so I went to the shop to see if he was there, but when Seth told me that Nathan never called him this morning, it was then that we knew that something was wrong." Preston turned away from the dirt drive and looked at his father.
" I see, well now I have the hard part of telling Bridgette that Nathan is gone." Lionel patted both men on the shoulder before walking over to his car.
The only thing that both Seth and Preston can do is finish up what Nathan was doing when he was attacked.
" Hey Preston come here and take a look at this?" Seth bent down at the last stall and noticed that there was drops of blood in the dirt.
" What is it?" Preston came up and he too saw it.
" Blood, and it seems that Nathan wounded his killer." Seth looked over too Preston and saw him lean closer to the drops of the blood and smelt one of the droplets.
" Damn he is back." Preston stood up and looked over to Seth and gave him that look of he knew it is.
" Let's call your father and let him know what we found and who it is too." Seth nodded as he too knew it was and he knew that he was filling his promise as to getting evening with his family for what happen that night.
Preston nodded and pulled out his phone and began taking pictures of the blood droplets, and then texting it and telling Lionel who their killer is.
