Johnny Talon and the Goddess of Love and War by W.B.J. Williams

Author:W.B.J. Williams [Williams, W.B.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FIC027030 FICTION / Romance / Fantasy
ISBN: 9781509253852
Amazon: 1509253858
Goodreads: 199149130
Publisher: Wild Rose Press
Published: 2024-02-20T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

The Right Use For Drugs

Once the tears stopped, the noises of the night brought to mind something she’d never mentioned before we met Miller. Drugs. In the two weeks she’d been my client, I’d not seen evidence that she was a junkie, but for that matter, I’d not had so much of a cigarette in days either. It had nothing to do with Drysdale, or did it?

“What were you taking?” I ventured.

“Taking?” her voice cracked. She needed a drink I didn’t have. So did I.

“The drugs.”

“Oh, those,” She stood up and threw a log onto the fire. “Mostly heroin, some marijuana. I did speed and Quaaludes when I could. I’d do one drug to get me through a john, and a different drug to get me through the times when there weren’t any. I don’t like thinking about it. In some ways it was worse than doing tricks to stay alive.”

Well that answered the question about why this hadn’t come up before. “You didn’t seem to be on anything when I took you out of Drysdale’s. Either you hide it well, or he kept you off the stuff while you worked for him.”

“The latter. That was part of his sadism. He’d lay out trays of the stuff just out of reach, fuck me and whip me until I bled while I was bound. I wanted the drugs to take myself away from what was being done to me, and he knew it. Ironically, the time I spent in his employ started me on my journey to get clean. I went through the DTs while ropes held me down. If I didn’t hate him so much, I suppose I should be grateful that he didn’t keep me on the stuff. He certainly had enough of it. Come to think of it, the joint I had at Miller’s place is the first time I’ve done drugs since you got me out of there.”

This time the silence was punctuated by a yawn.

“We did it all wrong just now,” I said through my yawn.

“How’s that?” She returned the yawn.

I lay down on my back, twisting a little to move off a rock I’d not seen. “We went in guns blazing. We took him seriously. Let’s get some sleep.”

“Here? In the middle of who knows where?”

“Yes.”

“I don’t know. I’m kind of afraid.” Still, she lay down next to me.

I rolled over and held her. “We slept naked on a city beach, and you’re afraid to sleep in the woods by a fire?”

She took my hand and placed it on her hip. “Yes. Part of it is that I don’t know where we are, or when.”

“I know but staying awake isn’t going to change that. I think fear is why we got it wrong at Drysdale’s—fear of him bringing more demons into the world. You kept away from your parents out of fear intertwined with anger. We need better motives.”

She wiped the tears away from her eyes with her hands. I couldn’t read her expression

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