Lesbian Assassins by Faye Audrey

Author:Faye, Audrey [Faye, Audrey]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Fireweed Publishing Ltd
Published: 2014-11-01T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

I settled into a booth in the back of The Cuppa, letting the chatter wash over and around me. I like watching people, and in a coffee shop, that’s mostly considered normal behavior, especially if you’re a nondescript woman in a flannel shirt, minding her mug alone.

The “alone” part had taken some work. Fortunately, I was pretty sure Lelo listened to Rosie, and Rosie understood why Carly walking in here might make things a little more combustible than we needed at the moment.

I wrapped my fingers around a mug that spoke of owners who knew and cared about the little things. This one invited my hands to hold without burning them or leaving my fingers an awkward path around a sexy, but impractical, handle.

A mug says a lot about the person who picked it out.

I wasn’t the only one sitting and communing with a mug alone, but I wasn’t in the majority, either. I let myself slide into the shadows of plain daylight and soaked in the vibe of a place that belonged to this town and the people in it.

Coffee shops are a bit like an interesting stream, one with hunks of rock and hanging branches impeding the flow and a few stray leaves bobbing along in the ripples, blobs of pretty color heading on a path to nowhere fast. In this particular stream… a baby over in the corner, mouth full of chocolate cookie. Two heads of grey hair tilted together in a posture of familiar affection. A pimple-faced teenager trying to impress a gaggle of girls, at least two of whom thought he was pretty hot stuff. A handful of solo drinkers, attention buried in some electronic device or another, or using them as cover for watching.

Ripples and rocks and stray leaves.

I turned a little as the flow signaled a change, angling my chair more toward the door just in time to catch Chadwick Barrington’s entrance.

It was definitely his moment, even though he followed the woman who could only be Lelo’s sister. She was curvier, and an inch or two taller, but otherwise molded from pretty much the same clay.

Except for the eyes. Lelo saw everything. Ally? Not so much.

Some people walk through little streams and most everything else in their life with happy blinders on. Filters—what my grandmother would have called rose-colored glasses. A little haze that coats everything and floats attention away from difficult things.

Ally wore those glasses, a double-thick pair that had probably landed on her nose as a kid with a non-existent dad and a mom who’d laid down on the job. The glasses were dead obvious as I watched her gaze at Chad, adoration leaking from every pore—as he gazed on everyone else. The lord of the manor thing again, meeting the eyes of several of the better-dressed patrons and ignoring the waitress smiling at him with hopeful eyes. Preening a bit for the teenage girls.

One of the girls shot him a glance and then carefully maneuvered her friends into one of the back booths, mostly out of sight.

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