On the Edge of Love (Mama's Brood Book 1) by Rucker Shay

Author:Rucker, Shay [Rucker, Shay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: multcultural, suspense
Publisher: Loose Id LLC
Published: 2015-01-19T17:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Zeus woke up instantly, yet kept his eyes closed. What registered first was that he was hard and Sabrina was no longer sprawled over him. He sensed she wasn’t even in the room, and doubted she was in the apartment. Without her warmth, despite the blanket, he was cold.

He opened his eyes and sat up, swinging his legs over the side of the low-lying bed. No, not bed, hard-assed futon. He’d have to get her a better mattress. Continuous sleeping and fucking on this thing would leave abrasions all over his body. It was worse than sleeping on dry earth.

Zeus stood and saw the items Sabrina had worn to bed the night before littered across the floor, but his T-shirt was gone. He flexed his fingers, picked up the knives on the side table, and twirled the blades, allowing them to complete their morning ritual. As the pace of the blades increased, the compulsive need to bury himself in Sabrina’s body diminished, and he was able to clear his mind and allow instinct to point him in her direction. No doubt the direction would lead him to Randy’s apartment. Before all was said and done, Zeus would likely have to stab Randy just to show both Randy and Sabrina that her visiting without him could be bad for Randy’s health as well as the longevity of his life.

He tossed his blades into the mattress to loosen his wrists. Sabrina would be pissed when she saw what he’d done, but she’d understand once he let her know he was going to get her a new one. He pulled on a pair of jeans and walked to the kitchen.

She didn’t have any food. She didn’t have any coffee; she didn’t have beer; she didn’t have shit, not even canned food. She had a half carton of milk, but the stamp said it had expired three weeks ago. Why the hell was she keeping it?

He poured the clumpy remains down the sink and turned on the faucet to wash away the evidence of her less than stellar home-keeping skills. More than food or drink or cleanliness, he still craved her. Didn’t make sense. A lot of things about him didn’t make sense to other people, but he always understood himself. Except where she was concerned. Four times wasn’t a charm. He still wanted her, more than yesterday. The compulsion had rebounded, and she wasn’t here. Unacceptable.

He went back to the living room and pulled another T-shirt from his duffel bag, grabbed his phone, tapped in the code to unlock it, and dialed.

“What’s up?” Big Country answered. “I see your girl sunning in the window upstairs. We laid money on whether you two would even make it out of her bed today. You lost me a wad of money, son. With all the fucking I heard during my rounds, I just knew I had a sure thing.”

Zeus peeked through the heavy brown and gold curtains that looked out on the side of the building and could just see the end of Big Country’s van parked on the street.

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