Private Showings by Malachi Stone

Author:Malachi Stone
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, suspense, murder, mystery, gothic, passion, danger, victorian, intrigue

Chapter Seventeen - The Moon

This time Kyrie found her way easily to the Biology building and Joey’s lab. She waited until he looked up from peering into a microscope before greeting him.

“How’s your research coming along, Joey?” Joey’s myopic expression became one of childlike joy upon seeing her. She handed him a vending machine plastic cup full of cracked ice. Joey looked at her as though he were expected to drink it. Then he saw the base of the used condom hanging limp over the brim.

“I want you to analyze something for me, Joey. Do one of your little autorads, or whatever.” Joey impetuously seized the condom and held it dangling, its milky load swelling the latex tip.

“Where’d you get this?” he asked her.

She arched an eyebrow.

“I mean, whose is it?”

“If you don’t mind, Joey, I’d rather not drop any names just yet. I’ll tell you one thing, though: I came close to dying getting it. Can you analyze it; compare it to the Peg Krause sample?”

“But why, Kyrie?”

“Just to satisfy my curious nature, ok? And please, please Joey, don’t say anything to Richard yet, will you? This has to be kept our little secret.”

“You think it’s Charlie? Wow!” There was no keeping anything from Joey’s quicksilver mind. He set about emptying the contents into a test tube, which he then sealed. Out of her hands now. “It’ll take some time, of course.”

“How much time?”

“We should know before your birthday. October 30th, isn’t it?”

“Why Joey, how did you know about my birthday?” She affectionately caressed the nape of his neck. It felt like a child’s after his first haircut. Joey fawned under her touch.

“Richard and I share everything,” he said. “That’s why it’s going to be tough keeping a secret from him. Any secret.”

“In that case, I better not tell you how old I’m going to be.”

“The big three-oh,” Joey shouted, triumphant.

“Not so loud,” she said with a wan smile. “I can maybe still pass for twenty-something in certain quarters.”

“My older sister just turned thirty. It’s not so bad.”

“How nice for her.”

Joey disappeared with the sample. When he returned a few minutes later, he seemed surprised to find her still sitting at the lab counter.

“Hey, what did you mean, you almost died getting it?”

She ignored his question. She had one of her own.

“What did you mean the other day, Joey? About Richard tracking down the Dogtown Debs to Black Forest?”

“Richard’s a geek on the subject of the Dogtown Debs,” Joey said. She savored the irony of Joey calling somebody else a geek.

“I’ve noticed. What makes him think they’re here, after all these years? You'd think they would have split up, maybe even died.”

“Oh, Richard’s a pretty good detective. It’s his avocation, you know. He’s even gone so far as to peruse other people’s garbage to find out information he can’t get anywhere else.”

She remembered the empty trash can, the windswept October night not long ago. What intimate secrets might he have learned from it?

“The tabloids go through celebrities’ trash. Some guy even wrote a book about it.

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