Red Star Sheriff by Timothy Purvis

Author:Timothy Purvis [Purvis, Timothy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9798606392438
Published: 2020-03-25T22:00:00+00:00

A HUGE SMILE was plastered across Aidele’s face as she walked into the circular rec room. Much like the lounge, there was a sunken depression with two steps ringed around it. Only this one took up most of the room. Two couches and two recliners encircled a holoprojector. Along the room length window, chairs, tables, and potted plants were found at random intervals. Behind Aidele, and along a back wall off the corridor to the bedrooms, was a billiards table and a game table filled with water. She’d never played it, but it had something to do with sunken balls and water darts.

She paused at the top of the two steps and stood there wearing just two towels. One around her body, the other her hair. To hell with clothes! She laughed and walked lightly to a couch and flopped down onto her back giddily. It was good to be out of her clothes and just lay about without a care in the world. There was nowhere else in the world she preferred to be right then. No thinking. No fighting. No shooting. No racing around in sticky, dirty clothing fleeing from malicious men looking to kill her. No focusing on sorrow and loss. Not for today.

Tomorrow maybe.

“Enjoy your bath?” Durante walked out of the kitchen drinking something from a glass.

Aidele wiggled her nose. Now that she was daisy fresh, she could smell his pungent odor wafting across the room. A soft laugh sat at the edge of her chest threatening to burst loose. It was a good thing they hadn’t run into anybody since their flight, she considered. They might’ve just turned tail and fled in disgust.

“Oh! By the Spirits! I feel fantastic!” Her smile broadened. “It’s nice not smelling like a garbage heap. Speaking of which…”

He quirked a brow and twisted a lip. “Right. About to go take care of that now. Before that, though, I just wanted to tell you I checked your… parents’ room. There looks like plenty of clothing in there. Maybe some of it will fit you? It’s the first room to the right just past the corner there.”

“All right. Sounds like a plan. Now hit the showers, soldier. You’re starting to offend my delicate senses.”

“Uh huhn.” He put his glass down on a countertop set into the dividing wall to the kitchen and started across the room and towards the bathroom.

Aidele chuckled and leaned back into the couch cushions in no particular hurry to go rummaging through her parents’ belongings. Time was flying quickly, she supposed. Though it had been months since her father’s murder, she could still feel the raw pain deep down, that crawling void of loss making it feel as if it’d been only yesterday. Now that she had time to ruminate over it, and since their weeks’ long slog was at least temporarily ended, her joyous mood was starting to sour.

“Ugh. Fine.”

She slung her feet to the floor, stood up. Then padded towards her parents’ room. The door slid open and she paused in the doorway as lights automatically turned on.

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