The House on the Water by Margot Hunt

Author:Margot Hunt [Hunt, Margot]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: novella
Publisher: Margot Hunt
Published: 2021-06-30T22:00:00+00:00

No one spoke much while we ate the pizza Nick had ordered. I didn’t take more than a few bites. The cheese was oily and congealed, and it sat heavily in my stomach. I wasn’t sure if everyone was simply emotionally drained from the day’s sad events, or if there was a more ominous undertone to the silence. The fact that Esme’s cause of death was still unknown. The creepy way Nick and Ford had watched John and me walk away down the beach. John’s belief that they themselves could possibly be suspects.

After we ate, Nick and Ford turned on the wall-mounted television to watch the news. John went outside to the deck without saying a word to anyone, including me. He slumped in one of the cushioned chairs and stared moodily out at the water. I left him to his brooding and went up to our room.

I curled up in bed with my book. I expected that John would come upstairs and join me. But he never did come up, or at least not until long after I finally fell asleep, my book still clutched in my hands.

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