Savage Lane by Jason Starr

Author:Jason Starr [Starr, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Thriller
Publisher: Polis Books
Published: 2015-10-10T16:00:00+00:00

MARK THOUGHT, Okay, seriously, what´s up with Karen?

He’d understood why she didn’t feel like talking or texting last night, but he didn’t get why she was still ignoring him this morning. Okay, it was only 8:32 on a Sunday and there was a possibility she was sleeping, but this didn’t really make sense since he’d decided that she hadn’t called him last night because she’d gone to sleep early and, besides, she was an early riser. She’d told him lots of times how she woke up every day at dawn, “like a rooster,” to do yoga and shit. She’d probably been up for about two hours already, and she must’ve seen his text from last night. Mark wanted to believe that she was working out, running, doing work for her job, involved with the kids, but he knew that only one explanation made actual sense—she was blowing him off.

Mark was in the kitchen, contemplating what to do, when Justin came down.

“There’s my big boy,” Mark said. “How’re you this morning, kiddo?”

“’Kay,” Justin said flatly, sitting at the table.

“Well, you look a lot better,” Mark said. “You look rested, you look happy. How about some pancakes for breaksticks?”

“’Kay,” Justin said.

Mark made Justin a couple of just-add-water buttermilk pancakes and served them to Justin with syrup. Justin took a bite, seemed a little disappointed, and said, “Mom makes them better.”

`“That’s not a nice thing to say,” Mark said. “You just hurt my feelings.”

“Sorry,” Justin said.

Mark left the kitchen, checking his cell, annoyed that Karen still hadn’t contacted him. Then it occurred to him that it was weird that Deb wasn’t up yet either, as she also wasn’t usually a late sleeper. When Mark woke up he’d noticed that she wasn’t next to him and then when he left the bedroom Casey started jumping on him because he hadn’t been let out yet. Mark assumed Deb had come home late, maybe one or two in the morning, and fallen asleep on a couch in the living room, or slept in the guestroom. She wasn’t in the living room so—just out of curiosity, not because he actually cared—he went up to the guest room, but the couch hadn’t been opened and there was no sign that she had slept there. Weird, yeah, but wasn’t it to be expected? The way she’d sashayed out of the house last night, obviously trying to make him jealous, it made sense that she’d sleep at Kathy’s or wherever to make him think that she was with a guy. It was a sad way of trying to make him jealous and upset, but as a mother of two kids it was also ridiculously irresponsible of her to play these games. Mark was going to have to remember to tell his lawyer about this too.

Ten o’clock and still no texts or calls from Karen—now this was getting Mark seriously concerned. He could deal with Deb checking out because his marriage had been dying a slow death for years, but he couldn’t handle even the possibility of losing Karen.

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