Calendar Girl, Volume One by Audrey Carlan

Author:Audrey Carlan [Carlan, Audrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781943893997
Publisher: Waterhouse Press

Chapter Six

Over the next week, Alec and I got into a regular routine. Stills, eating, sex. Painting, eating, sex. We hadn’t left the building, and most days it rained. I longed for sunny Malibu and being free to swim, go for a walk, or surf. What I missed most, though, besides my family, was Wes. Don’t get me wrong. Alec was amazing in more ways than one. Even though we had an easy camaraderie and had a blast in the bedroom, there really was nothing more to our relationship other than working and fucking. “Making love,” he called it. I called it fucking, and I loved to do it, though I didn’t share that with him. It could have been worse, I guess. He could have been parading me around to boring museums to look at other people’s art.

I wasn’t due in the workroom until the evening. That was a new request. Usually he wanted me there first thing after I woke. The problem was when I was alone with my thoughts, I’d think of all the things in my real life I was missing. My dad, who hadn’t woken from his coma but had been moved to a convalescent facility to be cared for by the state. Gin said it was an okay place, nothing special about it. She said she and Maddy visited every few days, read to him, tried to keep him company. She sent me a picture of him lying in bed. The bruises around his face had healed. Most of his body was still in a cast of some sort.

Looking down at my phone, I saw my dad. It was as if he was sleeping, not fighting for his life. The doctors didn’t know what his mental status would be if he woke up. When he woke up, I reminded myself. No need to put out negative vibes into the universe. Even though I didn’t really believe in that shit, if it did happen to be real, I wasn’t going to be the one to mess with the higher power.

Scrolling through the list of contacts, I pressed the speed dial for Maddy. It had been a good week since I’d spoken to her, and I was missing my baby sis.

“Hey, sis,” Maddy’s sing-song voice rang through the phone. Instantly, the tight feeling around my heart lessened at her happy tone.

“Hi, Mads. How you doing?” I asked.

The shuffling of papers and a zipper could be heard through the line. “Eh, you know me. Getting ready for class.”

“What’s this one?”

“Forensic Pathology,” she answered.

I pushed a hand through my hair and tucked the blankets higher around my body. “Isn’t that the study of dead people?”

More shuffling, and then she sighed. “Yeah, technically it focuses on determining the cause of death by examining a corpse. The autopsy is performed by a medical examiner, usually during the investigation of criminal-law cases and civil-law cases in some jurisdictions…” She went on, but I had blanked out after she said examining a corpse.

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