CLUB MEDicine: A Novel by Kinsley Jack

Author:Kinsley, Jack [Kinsley, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Thriller Books: Novel
Publisher: RANE Books
Published: 2015-02-12T16:00:00+00:00

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His first stop was at the Colony House liquor store. He could only hope he'd be lucky enough for them to have the exact vintage he was looking for. They did: Opolo Mountain Zinfandel Paso Robles 2012. It was one of Ana's favorites. She and Travis had purchased a case of it during their last family trip up north (their very last family trip, actually), and she had liked it so much, they had ordered two more cases a few months afterwards. The bottles had shown up at the door a few days before Travis and Ana had the final ugly fight that sent him packing.

His next stop was Home Depot for a roll of duct tape, but once he was in the parking lot, he remembered he had a roll in his garage back at the condo. He had used it to silence a tear in the hose of his wet/dry shop vac. The hole had made a god-awful sound, and the duct tape had done an amazing job of shutting it up. He hoped it would work as well on Ana.

He revised the list in his mind countless times (he hadn't written anything down). Just when he was sure he hadn't forgotten anything, he cursed at the last item needed and made an illegal u-turn to go to Big 5. There, he purchased a pair of 45-pound Marcy dumbbells. The eager young salesman helping him tried to upsell him into buying an entire set, including the rack to hold them, but Travis figured the total weight of ninety pounds weighed nearly as much as Ana, and was confident it would do the trick. He told the salesman, "Two dumbbells are enough for this dumbbell" and walked out with two strained shoulders. Yeah, they would do the trick.

When he arrived at his condo, he caught sight of Willy and Chili on the greenbelt playing with one of the rubber balls he had purchased for them. It was a sight that felt right, and they exchanged a wave at a distance. Chili even gave him a bark.

Travis backed his car into the garage and then brought his purchases into the house. He nearly dropped one of the dumbbells when he kicked the elevated step at the door that led from the garage into the house. His big toe started throbbing with a vicious heartbeat. Once he set the pair down, he staggered toward Bella's closet. Inside, he rifled through a stack of Disney blankets. In between one of them, he spotted his suit cover carrier bag. It was made of heavy-duty material for international travel, and was roughly seventy inches long — plenty of head room. He had used it when he visited Ana in Bucharest, and now found it ironically appropriate for this occasion. The sticky airline tickets were still wrapped around the handles. He tore these off, and in a moment of paranoia, he rolled them into small dense balls and flushed them down the toilet. He stared at the bowl for an entire minute, waiting to see if they would come back to haunt him.

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