Edge of Shadows by Cege Smith

Author:Cege Smith [Smith, Cege]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: General Fiction, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
ISBN: 9781467940603
Publisher: Cege Smith
Published: 2011-11-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

Ellie’s sleep was dreamless this time, but she was up early nonetheless. She played with the laptop a bit more and then headed into the shop. Kevin and Jeffrey were already there.

“I can see that my presence is quickly becoming unnecessary,” she said, shaking her finger at the two of them.

“Oh, stop it. You’re always welcome. But you’re right. We just don’t always need you. That’s code for you can take a day off every now and then,” Kevin said. He eyed the computer bag on her shoulder. “Did you finally give in to the pressures of this century?”

“Yes,” Ellie said grudgingly. “I got a cell phone too. I was really glad I did too because I ended up having to use it to call the cops on Jake yesterday.”

“Christ! What happened? Are you okay?” Kevin said. Both Kevin and Jeffrey stopped what they were doing.

“Yes, I’m fine. David was over last night and helped me calm down,” she said.

Kevin and Jeffrey exchanged a meaningful look and Kevin crossed his arms and raised his eyebrows. “Um hum,” he said with a knowing grin.

“Hey,” Ellie said, blushing. “It wasn’t like that.”

Kevin rolled his eyes. “Oh, sweetie, it never is. Well, I’m glad to hear you are all right and that big goon didn’t have a chance to do anything stupid.”

“It was so odd,” Ellie said, filling them in on what Jake had said. “Jake admitting to having a bad dream was shock enough. He’s always wanted everyone to believe that he’s some macho hunk who isn’t afraid of anything.” Kevin snorted. “But to be so persistent about it; that’s not like Jake. And then last night I fell asleep after dinner and had a seriously odd dream as well.”

“You did have quite an eventful day,” Kevin said, turning back to his work.

“I know, but David said that he thought I pulled in some elements of things that Jake described,” Ellie said, really not sure where she was going with that train of thought. It was like her brain was moving in slow motion on the topic. Again she felt like she was forgetting something important.

“Of course you did, ma’am,” Jeffrey replied. “Subconsciously you were continuing to try to process everything that happened to you yesterday, as well as this dream that disturbed both of you. So it is natural that you would pull some of that into your own dreams.”

“That makes sense,” Ellie said. She didn’t feel like working after all. “You know what, guys? I can see you’ve got things well in hand here. I think I may take the day off just like you suggested, Kevin. I do have to move some things over to Linda’s if I’m going to be staying there, and I think I could use the time off.”

“Certainly, ma’am,” Jeffrey said

“Okay, Ellie. Whatever you need to do,” Kevin agreed.

Ellie wrote her new cell phone number down and tacked it to the employee bulletin board. “You can reach me at this number. By the way,

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