Love in the Time of the Dead by Shanley Tera

Author:Shanley, Tera [Shanley, Tera]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Omnific Publishing
Published: 2013-10-19T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

A THUNDEROUS KNOCK ON LANEY’S DOOR made her lurch ungracefully from the bed she had been blissfully sleeping on exactly one second before. She landed with a thud on her hands and knees, the wooden floor proving itself a completely unforgiving companion. Another knock blasted in her ears.

“What!” she yelled testily. It was barely even light out.

“It’s Guist,” came the reply.

She threw open the thick wooden door so she could better glare at him.

“Eeek,” Guist said, taking a step back.

Why in Sam Hill was he so surprised? She had never been a morning person.

“What do you want?”

“Nick came by and said he’d meet up with us at breakfast to give us our job assignments this morning. Said mess hall stops serving breakfast at eight, and work starts at eight thirty.” He turned to head back up the trail to his cabin. “Get ready,” he called over his shoulder.

A quick look in the mirror brought the cause of Guist’s startled reaction to light. Nightmares had kept her tossing and turning through the short night, and her hair was sticking up in all directions. The thin pillow had left creases across her face, and in light of no pajamas to be found in her cluttered backpack, she had greeted him in her black tank top and a pair of red cotton underwear. Attractive.

She took in the small room that was to be her home for the duration of her stay at Dead Run River. A mixture of exhaustion and laziness had kept her from lighting the lantern the night before so her view of her new home had been drastically narrowed. The little cabin Nick had assigned her was actually quite homey and warm.

There was a table with a washbasin that came up to the height of her hips on the wall opposite the door. An old bucket just showing its rust had been placed beside it and the bowl where she had rinsed her face the night before was under the mirror. A simple pine bed took up most of the wall to her left, and the mattress had been accompanied by a stack of clean linens and a thick blue comforter. A small, old fashioned wood burning stove sat in the corner with a stack of firewood just below it. A silver pipe that vented smoke from the stove to the exterior of the cabin snaked up the wall. Opposite the bed was a small dresser with three drawers, and a chair and modest table beside it with a pen and a small stack of linen paper for writing. The dark metal lantern was on the wooden table waiting to be lit by the box of matches that sat beside it. The wooden floor was simple and bare except for a small, blue fuzzy bath mat that someone had thoughtfully placed just below the washbasin and mirror.

It was perfect.

She pulled her pants on and emptied the small amount of clothing she had in her pack into the top drawer of the dresser.

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