In the Blink of an Eye by Staub Wendy Corsi

Author:Staub, Wendy Corsi [Staub, Wendy Corsi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Suspense, Paranormal, thriller, Horror, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780062230119
Amazon: 0062230115
Goodreads: 15851933
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2013-02-19T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

ON TUESDAY MORNING, after checking his voice mail back home and finding no messages from his agent, as usual, Paine takes his first shower in nearly a week. It feels so good, standing beneath the spray of the newly installed shower head, that he lingers there for well over fifteen minutes.

His thoughts wander back to yesterday afternoon, when he sat in on Stan’s acting workshop at Chautauqua. It was invigorating, just being in a musical theater environment again after all these years. In California, his career has taken a far different path than he ever anticipated. Back when he was a theater student, learning and honing his craft, he never imagined himself doing commercials and industrials, or being a lowly stand-in on a movie set.

No, he’d always thought he was Broadway bound.

Then he met Kristin. She wanted nothing to do with Broadway. Hollywood was where she was headed.

Whither thou goest, I shall go. . .

He always planned that they would have that Bible passage read at their wedding.

Paine sighs, tilting his head back into the hot spray to rinse the lather of shampoo from his hair.

He planned a lot of things that never came true.

When he finally turns off the water and emerges into the steamy bathroom to towel off, he looks around for a switch that might turn on some kind of fan. There isn’t one.

No wonder the yellow floral wallpaper is peeling at the seams, he thinks, glancing at it as he quickly slips into a pair of boxer shorts. Too much humidity.

His first instinct is that he needs to see about having a fan installed—and that it’s a job he won’t attempt to do himself. The shower head took him until well after midnight last night, and he’s certain he kept Dulcie awake with all the noise.

But she’s still asleep, he notes now, hearing nothing but silence in the old house as he leaves the bathroom and makes his way past her room to the top of the stairs.

There, it hits him that he won’t have to worry about installing a fan, or doing anything else to fix the place up and capture a buyer’s interest.

After all, he’s selling it to Rupert Biddle, and he’s selling it just as it is.

He hasn’t yet broken the news to Dulcie.

He sent her upstairs to work on her bead bracelet while he and Rupert talked. When he told her she could play a tape on her Walkman, it was so that she wouldn’t be able to eavesdrop on the conversation. But it wasn’t because he wanted to keep the news of the sale from her.

He had no intention of giving in to Rupert’s demands when they started talking.

No, he simply figured they were headed for a very vocal disagreement, and he didn’t want Dulcie to overhear.

But what Rupert said changed everything.

How can Paine possibly refuse to return the place to an old man who only wants to bring his wife home to die?

On paper, Paine isn’t a widower.

In his heart, he is.

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