No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay

Author:Linwood Barclay [Barclay, Linwood]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Tags: Suspense, Thriller, Family Life, Mystery, Fiction, Suspense Fiction, Fiction - Espionage, Mystery And Suspense Fiction, Domestic fiction, Missing Persons, English Canadian Novel And Short Story
ISBN: 9780553805550
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 2007-09-25T05:00:00+00:00

We both could, and probably should, have taken more time off work, especially after the night we’d put in, but we both returned to our jobs the following morning.

“I’m really sorry,” Grace said, for about the hundredth time, as she ate her Cheerios.

“Don’t you ever pull a stunt like that again,” Cynthia said.

“I said I’m sorry.”

Cynthia had still ended up sleeping with her for the night. She wasn’t about to let Grace out of her sight for a while.

“You snore, you know,” Grace told her.

It was the first I’d felt inclined to laugh in a while, but I managed to hold it in.

I left first for work, as usual. Cynthia did not say goodbye or walk me to the door. She still hadn’t forgotten our fight before the false alarm with Grace. Just when we needed to pull together, there was this invisible wedge being driven between us. Cynthia remained suspicious that I was still keeping things from her. And I was feeling uneasy about Cynthia in ways I was finding it hard to articulate, even to myself.

Cynthia thought I was blaming her for all our current troubles. It was undeniable that her history, her proverbial baggage, was currently haunting our days and nights. And at some level, maybe I was blaming her, even though it wasn’t her fault that her family had disappeared.

The one concern we had in common, of course, was how all this was affecting Grace. And the way our daughter had chosen to cope with the household angst—so troubling that thoughts of a destructive asteroid actually provided some sort of an escape—had itself become the catalyst for another blowup.

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