Redemption (epub) (Vampire) by Victoria Steele Logue

Author:Victoria Steele Logue [Logue, Victoria Steele]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Low Country Press
Published: 2011-09-14T03:00:00+00:00

Abe

For the first time in his life, the oak-paneled walls depress him. Usually, when feeling low, his bedroom offers him the illusion of peace. It is his sanctum. It is where he goes to get away from his mother’s ever-watchful eyes, ever-dominating tongue. When his father had died, he had spent two days in this room, lying on his bed and staring at the ceiling. He had cried off and on during those two days in the twelfth year of his life, the hot tears pooling in his ears. But mostly he had thought, staring at the ceiling as if it were a screen where all the memories of his father played for one last time. He had desperately tried to remember every word, every touch, every look.

Since that time, he has never cried, but his bedroom is still his refuge. Now, it is where he goes to think of Ginny.

But tonight, instead of providing comfort and sanctuary, the dark wood seems to enclose him like some small animal in a trap. His thoughts keep returning to a cottage, a beckoning window and a couple embracing on an overstuffed couch.

Abe is dumbfounded. He could have sworn he had seen Ginny lying on top of a man when he had peered through her front window. But when she had opened the door, there had been no one there. Only Ginny in a robe, a fire dancing merrily in the hearth and the dog.

“That huge whatever it was,” Abe thinks, because it was no breed he could identify. Maybe a cross between a wolf or coyote and some other large breed. He was sitting, as he had done only a few days earlier, on his bed and staring into the mirror. His mother is out at the moment; some kind of women’s meeting or charity event, he isn’t sure.

Abe plays the scene over in his mind for the umpteenth time since he left Ginny’s cottage. He had driven over to her house to check on her, that much had been true. He had been worried because she had seemed so tired at work, her eyes had had a bruised look about them. He knew he had promised to call but he was afraid of waking her. He thought, perhaps, if he drove by and her lights were on . . .

And, he had seen the light shining through her curtains, and had thought, good, she’s awake.

Although he didn’t make a practice of peeping through people’s windows, he couldn’t resist the two-inch gap in the curtains masking the living room window that looked out over Ginny’s front porch.

Had he been asked why he succumbed to the urge of peeping Tomism, he would have probably said that he had just wanted to see Ginny being herself, see if she behaved at home the same way she interacted with him.

He had been shocked to find her in the arms of another man (he already thinks of Ginny as his) whose face he could not see because it was curtained by Ginny’s long brown hair.

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