Milk Teeth: A Novel by Helene Bukowski

Author:Helene Bukowski
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Unnamed Press
Published: 2021-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

Edith was listening out for me. She was standing ready in the hallway, the dogs at her side. Exhausted, I let the door snap shut behind me.

“What were you thinking, taking off and leaving the child here?”

“Where’s Meisis?”

“I put her to bed. She asked after you the whole time. Where were you?”

“Levaii’s sisters have gone missing,” I said.

Edith didn’t seem surprised. “So now they have a reason?”

I stepped toward her. “What do you know about it?” I asked.

“Me?”

“Are you hiding something from me?”

“I saw them walking around.”

“Levaii’s sisters?”

She shook her head. “The ones looking for them. I knew something must have happened. They never usually come that close to our house. But I wasn’t sure. I thought that maybe I’d just imagined it. It was hard making them out in the dim light.”

“I saw them too.”

Edith nodded. “Now they’ll come, right?”

“Yes. There’s nothing else I can do.”

For a brief moment I thought that Edith was going to take a step toward me. She raised her arm, as if she wanted to reach out to me, but then she let it drop abruptly and stayed where she was.

“I told you it would come to this,” she said.

IS LEAVING ALL WE HAVE IN THE END?

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