DECEPTION HOTEL: A Wedding, an Affair, and Murder for Hire by Barlow Madison

Author:Barlow, Madison [Barlow, Madison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: FastForward Publishing
Published: 2014-09-28T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven - Andrew

I woke up to a very bright bedroom. I squeezed my eyes shut, trying to keep the light away from the dull thumping that was happening somewhere behind my eyes, and groaned. I stretched out my arm, felt the bed next to me was empty and cold, and opened one eye a little to look around the room.The light flooded into my head immediately, and the room spun all around me. But I’d seen her, flying past me twice or so. Claire was sitting in the arm chair close to the door, reading something.

“What time is it?” I asked and my voice sounded deep and husky. Why did I ever drink that much? How much did I even drink?

“It’s nine.”

“What time do we need to go down for the thing?” the ache in my head was increasing pretty fast, and my stomach starting turning too. I needed food. Good and greasy food.

“You mean the wedding?” her voice was sharp, but she didn’t look up from the magazine, “that’s happening at three. So you have some time to fix yourself up.”

I decided to ignore the spin of the room and the turn of my stomach, and got up, feeling shaky on my legs.

“I think I’m going down to breakfast,” I said, and Claire nodded, not really listening.

“You coming with me?” I asked.

“I’ve already eaten.”

When had that happened? Nine wasn’t that late.

“So you don’t want to come down?” I asked, trying again.

“I think I’m just going to spend some time up here, read a bit. Maybe go for a walk. You go on ahead.”

The room was still spinning but that didn’t stop me from realizing how far away she was, further away than ever before. I walked towards her, hoping for any kind of recognition. I suddenly wanted her to notice me. If she could just look at me, that would be enough. But she didn’t look up, not until I was right next to her, and I was about to put my hand on her shoulder. She looked at me then, her eyes vivid and loaded with color. But they weren’t happy to see me. There was something deep hiding behind the green sea – I remembered getting lost in them in the beginning – and she had an expression on her face, something that looked like a mask, hiding what was really there.

“You’ve had brandy.” It wasn’t a question.

“I think so, yes,” I said, trying to remember exactly what I had chugged down my

throat.

“Maybe you should shower before you go downstairs. You can smell the brandy.”

She didn’t say it in a mean way, there wasn’t a trace of anything hard in her voice, but it hit me in my gut like she’d physically punched me. Maybe it wasn’t what she said, but her face when she said it. I didn’t know. My hand was still hovering over her shoulder, and I pulled it back, nodding. I walked slowly to the bathroom. Sometimes, a whole night went missing,

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