Amnesia by Andrew Neiderman

Author:Andrew Neiderman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2001-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

The phone was ringing when he reentered his office. It was Megan and she sounded angry.“How come you didn’t call me at work to tell me what you were doing, Aaron?”

“What?”

“I was worried about you after yesterday. It’s not like you to be inconsiderate.”

“I left you a note,” he said.

“Aaron, did you forget I go to work, too, after I drop Sophie off at school?”

He was silent. He had forgotten. This was the first thing he had forgotten in his renewed life, as he liked to think of it now. Was that a sign of something more serious?

“I did forget,” he confessed. “I’m sorry.” His voice was tainted with deep worry. Megan heard it.

“It’s all right, Aaron. I haven’t talked about my work all that much. It could just slip through the cracks. It’s no big deal.”

“Why haven’t you talked about it much, Megan? I don’t even know what you’re working on.”

“I think we’ve been a bit preoccupied with other things, Aaron.”

“I see.” He thought a moment. “Still, I hope it’s not the sign of another CVA or something.”

“It’s not, Aaron. Stop it! Normal, healthy people forget things all the time. It’s part of being human.”

“Okay.” He took a breath. “I didn’t know Patricia Noel was Terri’s sister. Harlan was just here. He and I went to look at the site of his project and he told me.”

“Is she? I didn’t know that,” Megan said.

“I thought you told me everyone knows everything about everyone else in this town.”

“We haven’t been in this town long enough, Aaron. Why the cross-examination?”

Her irritable tone had returned.

“Oh, I don’t mean it to sound that way. I was just curious,” he said.

“Forget it. It’s not important,” she added quickly. He realized she had other things on her mind. “Do you want to meet me for lunch?”

“Grandma’s Kitchen?”

“In an hour,” she said. “I have a surprise for you. I’m not sure that’s the best place for it, but I don’t want to keep it hidden any longer.”

“So tell me now. What is it?”

“Face to face, Aaron. We do our best work face to face,” she said, laughed licentiously, and hung up.

He smiled to himself and put the receiver back on its cradle as he sat back and gazed out the window. Megan could sure make him feel good about himself, he thought. He was musing on that and theirlovemaking when he noticed that man he had seen earlier. He was back where he had been, staring at Aaron’s offices.

What’s he doing? Aaron wondered. He rose and went quickly to the door. He opened it, but by the time he stepped out, the man was gone again, not a sign of him on the street in either direction.

He would have thought him to be a phantom if he hadn’t just remembered where he had seen him before today.

That was the nervous, distraught man in Dr. Longstreet’s lobby.

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