Shades of Night (Sparrow Falls Book 1) by Justine Sebastian

Author:Justine Sebastian [Sebastian, Justine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2016-01-18T07:00:00+00:00

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Winter rain pounded down on the roof and Josephine Miller shivered, imagining the icy needle spray as she nestled down in her pile of polar fleece throws and an old afghan. She had a cup of hot apple cider and a new book to read; her cat Bartholomew was curled up in the crook of her knees, the vibration of his purring a steady comfort. Josephine liked winter, but she was freezing and hadn’t been able to get warm all damn day. She’d woken up that morning to find her house cold and her heater no longer working. The repairman she called to come take a look at it had not shown up. The next time he checked his voicemail he would discover a politely enraged message from Josephine, spoken through chattering teeth.

It was January third and Josephine thought that so far the new year was turning out pretty crappy; not that the last half of the old year had been anything to write home about. The wind whipped around her raised house and she swore she could feel it sway though she knew that really wasn’t true. It was only the idea of being so high up in such strong winds that made her mind turn that way. That and it was better than thinking about the screams of the goats as that whatever slaughtered them so cruelly.

She still thought it was a bear and damn that Melinda Turner for being so ugly to her about it. Josephine was allowed her theories about what it was just like everyone else. Sometimes she thought Melinda didn’t really like her much on account of Josephine being a vegan. Her brother, Charlie, told her she was being silly—both about her veganism and her imagined persecution by the townspeople. Charlie was a butcher, of course he thought Josephine being vegan was a bad idea. His wife, Helen, was a psychologist and had once suggested that Josephine felt persecuted for certain life choices she made because she herself felt unsure about her commitment to them.

Helen definitely did not like Josephine, but at least Helen had the decency to (pretty much) say it to her face.

Such thoughts were putting Josephine in a grumpy mood. She got up from the couch, grabbed her afghan and wrapped it around her shoulders as she padded into the kitchen in search of a snack. She settled on making a sandwich out of some leftover tofurkey she had from Christmas and ate it standing at the kitchen sink with Bartholomew twining between her ankles.

“You won’t eat this,” Josephine told him. “You’re a carnivore and I am not interested in killing you.” People who enforced their lifestyle on their pets needed to be kicked in the face. At least Josephine and Charlie agreed on that. Hell, even Helen the Snoot agreed with her about that.

“God, I’m a real jerk today,” Josephine told Bartholomew as she took down his jar of kitty treats.

She gave the cat the allotted six little treats shaped like crudely drawn fish and chicken drumsticks.

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