The King's Justice by Susan Elia MacNeal

Author:Susan Elia MacNeal [MacNeal, Susan Elia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2020-02-25T00:00:00+00:00

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Later that night, as she lay in bed, Maggie pulled out a flask of gin she’d hidden under her mattress—next to the knife. Sipping as K burrowed in beside her, she looked around the room, once damaged by an errant German bomb. David had gotten the second floor rebuilt while she had been on her mission in Paris. The walls were now painted blue and decorated with framed covers of Vogue, Look, and even the cover of the first Wonder Woman comic book.

Maggie flicked Diana Prince the V-sign. “You probably sleep just fine, don’t you? Probably one of your magical powers…” K looked at her with slit eyes, got up and stretched, turned around, and settled back in.

Trying not to think of the day to come, Maggie drank more gin, hoping against hope it would be enough to render her unconscious. She felt the pressure of unshed tears building inside of her, things unsaid, things left undone. She finished the flask, then chain-smoked the rest of the pack of cigarettes, puffing ever more perfect circles into the air, until finally she fell into a numb, sticky slumber.

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