Lucid Design by Kate Tailor

Author:Kate Tailor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oghma Creative Media

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RALEIGH DIDN’T SPEAK with Rho again, but she caught a glimpse of him as she left for the airport. She hadn’t told her parents that she was coming home. There was a chance that her mother would want to talk to Sabine, and Raleigh didn’t want to explain that she was in California. She simply booked a flight and landed in Denver.

In the departures line of the airport, she hailed a cab. She inhaled two large breaths of the thin dry air, both the altitude and the climate welcoming her home. Getting into the car, her legs twitched, she was so close. They drove by buildings that she’d seen at a distance most her life, and then by familiar complexes, and then into her development. She kept scooting to the edge of her seat, but the seatbelt tugged her back.

The hot sun of late afternoon pooled into the car as she stepped out. A distant lawn mower could be heard, infusing the air with the smell of fresh cut grass. Her two-story blue house brought on a pang of nostalgia. The basketball hoop over the garage begged a game, reminding her of the scrimmages against Ben and Lana. Everything had changed, yet this remained preserved. At the front door her fingers instinctually went to the bell before she thought better of it and opened the door. This place would be home no matter how far she’d come.

“Hello?” Her father’s voice sounded warmer without the computer speakers to distort it. His footfalls echoed through the foyer as he left his office. His face turned from worry to jubilation, his heart picking up to match her joy. “Raleigh! You’re back.”

Raleigh tucked herself into the folds of his arms. The surge of emotion made her want to spill everything and to talk to him like she used to when no secrets existed between them. For years he’d helped her pick apart her problems, but this one was too heavy for her to hand off to him.

“You’re back?” Her mother would not wait her turn an embraced both Raleigh and Theo. Lilacs from the flower shop incensed her hair. In that embrace the anger and conflict from the last few months was nowhere to be found.

How easy it would have been to pretend that nothing had changed and that she was safe just because she was home. That wasn’t the case and she stepped back. “I need to get the number for Grant and Able from Uncle Patrick.”

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