The Immolation of Eve (Eve MacKenzie's Demons) by Helen Fields

Author:Helen Fields [Fields, Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy
ISBN: 9780957124608
Publisher: Wailing Banshee
Published: 2011-12-12T23:00:00+00:00

Fifteen

When I awoke I had about an hour before needing to be on my bike into Carmel. I hadn't decided yet if I was going to carry on with the play. In the light of last night's discoveries it all seemed kind of futile. My head was aching and my body felt dirty and dusty. I grabbed black coffee from the kitchen and ran a bath. Twenty minutes of soaking later and I started to pull myself together. The sun lit up the bathroom through the picture window and it looked as if today was going to be glorious. I got out of the bath and walked to press my hands against the glass. From here, it was as if nothing existed except nature. No other houses, aerials or roads were visible. I took in a deep breath and tried to recompose myself. As I dropped my shoulders and breathed slowly out I let my head drop and opened my eyes. Standing staring openly at me, leaning back against a tree as if he owned the place, was the man who’d interrupted my conversation with Perun last night. I screeched, threw a towel around my dripping body and ran down the stairs. By the time I'd thrown the door open and stormed out he'd walked forward to meet me. He stood with one foot up on the veranda, eyebrows raised and chewing his bottom lip. He was trying to keep himself from smiling and I just saw red.

'I don't know who the fuck you think you are, but I am not going to put up with being spied on by the hired hand.' I don’t swear like that unless I’ve really lost control and this time I was well past the point of no return.

'When you've calmed down enough to be rational, you should know that Miss Roman sent me over because you weren't answering your phone. You also didn't respond when I knocked the door so I was waiting to see if there was any sign of you before I kicked it down.'

'Oh, and is this like last night when Miss Roman sent you to get me? You know, I could have done without the self-righteous lecture yesterday, especially coming from a man who stands and stares at naked women through their bathroom window.'

He threw his head back, hands on hips and looked into the sky as if summoning the patience to deal with a small child. I don't lose control very often but when I do it's not pretty. Part of me wanted to throw myself on the ground and kick my legs and the rest wanted to run away and hide in a cupboard.

'I'm going to say one last thing and then I'm going to leave you to work this out on your own. I wasn't spying on you and I didn't know that was your bathroom. I had no idea you were going to appear in the window naked, and while I'm on the subject, maybe you shouldn't have been standing at the window without anything on.

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