The Jolvix Episodes 02-Violet Is Nowhere by Gardner Faith
Author:Gardner, Faith [Gardner, Faith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Suspense, American Suspense, Psychological Suspense, Domestic Thriller, Dystopian
Publisher: Mirror House Press
Published: 2022-09-22T04:00:00+00:00
Hi Leslie, Iâm not doing press at this time. Please take me off your list, this number is my private phone xoxo
There are six more messages like that over the past couple of days and she says the same thing, as if copy and pasted. âPlease take me off your list, this number is my private phone xoxo.â Odd. Really odd. Did someone have this phone and put it back?
My phone starts ringing and I put Violetâs down on the coffee table to pick mine up. I sit back and answer. Iâd kick my feet up, but the coffee tableâs too good for my boots.
âHey Violet.â
âYou there yet?â
âBeen here a bit, yeah.â
âAnd?â
âIâm at your place. Not gonna lie, itâs weird here.â
âWeird how?â
âFirst of all,â I say. âYour neighbor Jonieâs a trip.â
âUgh.â
âShe thought my name was âButt.ââ
âSheâs a dingbat. Iâm sorry.â
âShe seemed to think that you were maybe moving out?â
âShe wishes. God, that womanâs a hawk. She wants her dingbat best friend to move into the building. Every day sheâs poking her head out to ask if Iâm moving. So rude.â
âThen your apartment â¦â
âYeah?â she asks, sounding concerned. âEverything okay?â
âWell,â I say, staring at the abstract painting on her wall that looks like someone took some mustard and ketchup bottles, had a squirtfest, and called it art. âIt doesnât feel lived in. It feels like stuffâs missing. You know what I mean?â
âSomeone broke in?â she asks, pitch climbing. Her voice isnât as bad as it was yesterday, but itâs still a little hoarse.
âNo, no. Itâs hard to explain.â
âWhatâs missing?â
âWell, hard to know whatâs missing when Iâve never been here before.â
âYou know, dude, sometimes you are straight-up aggravating.â
âOkay, okay,â I say, getting up to walk around and survey the place again. âItâs likeâthere are no signs of a real person living here. Nothingâs left out on countertops, no messes anywhereââ
âItâs clean, Bud,â she says. âThatâs whatâs freaking you out? Iâm neat?â
âItâs not just that. Oh! And your purseâsorry, I went through your purse. That okay?â
âSure, why not? I mean, Iâm locked in a cabin with fork wounds on my face so Iâve kind of learned to live a little here.â
âThereâs nothing in it,â I say. âJust keys, wallet, and your phone.â
âWhat else would you expect me to keep in there?â She gasps, as if she just processed what I said to her. âWaitâmy phone?â
âYeah. And Iâm going through that right nowââ
âGoing through my phone.â
âThat okay?â
âI mean, sure. Just donât mind the nude selfies.â
My mouth is stuck open a moment.
âJoking, Bud. I donât do nude selfies. Donât want to give Big Brother a free boner.â
I swallow. âAnywayââ
âDid I just make you uncomfortable?â
âNo, Iââ
âWas it imagining me naked or imagining Big Brother with a boner?â
âNeither, okay?â I ask, my face getting hot. âCan we focus? Reporters have been texting you asking for interviews.â
âReporters? On my cell? Howâd they get my number?â
âIt said Benzo gave it to them.â
âAhhh, way to stick to me, Benz,â she says.
âAnd youâve been replying this cut-and-paste answer. Hold on, let me find it.
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