Apocalypse: Year Zero by Sokoloff Alexandra & Pinborough Sarah & Langan Sarah

Author:Sokoloff, Alexandra & Pinborough, Sarah & Langan, Sarah [Sokoloff, Alexandra]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: 4 Novellas
Published: 2012-12-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

The sheets were cold and white. His skin was hot to the touch. In the darkness, she could see only silhouettes of their twisting limbs and the faint glow of those white, white sheets.

Further down, a bare fluorescent bulb illuminated the racks. Gleaming metal alloy rails in neat rows, with things stacked high toward the ceiling of the bay. Little seemed to have changed over the years. Same shop-style open bay with a bed and kitchenette thrown in. She smiled, feeling him all over. Good to let her mind forget everything for a while and just focus on what was going on with her body.

He covered her mouth with his lips but she turned away, arching her neck and softly biting his ear lobe.

The way he pressed into her, it brought that delicious charge, but he kept moving wrong and the feeling kept going away. She wrapped her legs around him and pulled. This time, he worked with her, and the sensation started growing. She dug in, determined that he keep at it.

He grabbed her hair and gave her a hard, coffee-and-cigarette kiss. She jerked away.

The sensation stopped again. “Damn it!”

“What?”

“Nothing.”

He cupped his hand around her jaw and pulled her face toward him. “Just give me your lips, baby.”

“Cut it out.” She rolled over halfway and folded her arm across her chest with her face toward the wall.

“What?” he said, his voice sounding pissed.

She felt his eyes on her but she said nothing. The swamp coolers hummed loud enough to cover any street noise. He actually had two of them. Two! He hated to sweat.

He rolled away and a moment later the lights came on. The walls were made of corrugated metal, with exposed steel framing studs and racks and racks of particle board shelves. Along the far walls were unidentifiable metal or plastic objects where you could never guess which greater whole was once the sum of these parts. Closer in, the shelves were smaller and lined with stuff like plastic cups, magazines, some dextrose and lactose, empty and half-empty bottles of Abita Light. He was always making a case for buying local.

What a hole. She used to think it was exciting.

He said, “Is it because I tried to kiss you?” The sound of a lighter flicking and an intake of breath. “That it?”

“I got a split lip if you haven’t noticed,” Rook said, but they both knew that wasn’t why.

“Oh, come off it.”

These secret digs of his were supposed to be a salvage yard. He actually sold things on eBay every once in a while to keep up appearances. But with all the junk lying around, Rook saw no sign of any paraphernalia. Not even for his own use, except for one single X tablet on the nightstand. No sign the wife came around much either. He always kept her neatly away in some mansion uptown.

A long exhalation as he blew out the smoke. “So you’ll spread your legs for me but you won’t let me kiss you?”

She sat up and started for the edge of the bed.

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