A Leap of Faith by Lily Zante

Author:Lily Zante [Zante, Lily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Lily Zante
Published: 2015-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

They were back at the lively Thai restaurant in downtown San Francisco where they'd gone to on their first 'date'. Or rather he was back and he was waiting for Nadine.

Some birthday.

’I'll meet you there at six' she’d told him even though he’d known the moment she’d said it that there was a strong possibility that she would be late. He knew just how hard it was for her these days to leave much before six. Maybe she was making a show of wanting to prove to him that he mattered. Maybe for this, his thirty-first birthday, she was pulling out all the stops.

When the server delivered his beer and a glass of wine for Nadine, Ethan asked him the time. "Six thirty five. Are you ready to order?" Ethan shook his head. "I'm still waiting for my fiancée." He didn't bother checking his cell for messages and explanations. She'd get here when Zimmerman was done with her.

Even on his birthday it didn't seem he mattered. He scratched his chin, not having shaved for a couple of days, the hairs that were coming through were starting to itch.

Feeling hungry and irritable, he tried not to think about the sculptures he’d been working on. He ate, slept and dreamed sculptures these days. He was on a mission to complete a few pieces by the end of March, so that he could begin the work for the doctor. The lawyer had shifted her art work to the summer which gave him breathing space. It meant he could finish the shark for the aquarium by next month and he'd done a skeleton outline for the Garvie model. Just mentally knowing he had started it meant he'd get it done on time. She said she was happy to wait but he would be happier when it was done and off his list and he didn’t have to deal with her again. Still, he had her penciled in for after the shark and before the lawyer.

When his stomach screeched for attention again, and the aroma of lemongrass wafted around his head, he opened the newspaper Zadie had handed him before he left.

‘You might want to read it,’ she’d said.

Needing the distraction, he opened the pages, flicked through news about pension fund complaints, a bike theft in Tenderloin, a raid in a house growing marijuana in Bayview.

And then his heart stopped beating.

There, amidst the celebrity and gossip pages, a photo of him and Nadine, taken the night they'd just visited the MOMA, stared back at him.

But it was the headline underneath that turned him to stone.

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