Gemini by Geonn Cannon

Author:Geonn Cannon [Cannon, Geonn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Supposed Crimes LLC
Published: 2013-01-16T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Molly descended the stairs two at a time, still buttoning her shirt as she tried to flee the house. As she burst into the kitchen, she barely had time to register that she wasn’t alone. The older woman at the stove turned and said, “Good morning, Mrs. Fraser...oh.”

“Uh. Robin...Ms. Fraser and I...were out late last night. I came up and kind of fell asleep in the chair.”

“Oh. Well, okay,” the woman said. “Would you like to stay for breakfast?”

“No,” Molly said, a bit more harshly than she’d planned. “No,” she said again, softer this time. She checked her watch; it was still way too early to go in to work, but she wasn’t keen on sitting down to breakfast with this cheery apple lady and April's former lover. She tucked her hair behind her ears -- she’d forgotten her ties upstairs, so her hair was down against her shoulders the way April had always worn it -- and moved quickly to the back door.

The woman said, “Have a nice day.”

“You, too,” Molly managed as she shut the door. She leaned against the side of the house and closed her eyes. The morning still smelled new, the sun painting everything a beautiful shade of gold. It reflected off shop windows and the windshields of passing cars. She took a deep breath of the early morning and let it out slowly through her nose. She checked her watch and decided she had time to run home, get a shower, and change clothes before she went to work.

And maybe if she managed her time well enough, she’d also be able to fit in a steady round of “What the hell was I thinking?” while she was at it.

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After a quick shower, Molly wrapped herself in a towel and passed the telephone table in the hall on her way into the bedroom. A red seven flashed at her from the answering machine. “Our condolences,” she could hear the callers saying. “She was so young, it’s so tragic, share your grief with us because we knew her when...” She was in no way in the mood for that, so she ignored the plaintive seven and went into the bedroom. She put on a white T-shirt with an unbuttoned red blouse over it, tucking them both into a pair of blue jeans.

She looked into the mirror and saw April staring back at her until she gathered her hair and tied it into pigtails. She found her bag and looped it over the shoulder as the phone began ringing again. She gave it a hateful stare and walked out of the house.

Unfortunately, even with taking the second longest shower of her life -- the first had been the morning after fucking Beth Gillis in the backseat of her daddy’s car -- it was still a full half-hour before nine. She knew Clifton wouldn’t let anyone, not even her, in before that magic hour, and the day was starting out to be much nicer than the rest of the week.

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