The Pecan Man by Cassie Dandridge Selleck

Author:Cassie Dandridge Selleck [Selleck, Cassie Dandridge]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-01-03T05:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

Just after lunch, I made an excuse to call another taxi to pick me up. If Blanche was suspicious, she didn’t let on. I gave instructions to the driver to take me to an address on Canal Street and he silently drove me there. I asked him to wait and he did as I walked up the clean-swept, but cracked and broken sidewalk to the front porch. I’d seen Blanche’s house before, but I had never been inside. I was raising my hand to knock on the door when it was opened by a young man I guessed to be around twenty years old. I couldn’t say which of us were more surprised, but I found my voice first.

“Is Patrice home?” I asked.

“Uh, yes ma’am, she’s, um, in the bathroom right now,” he stammered.

“And you would be…?” I fished for a name.

“Um, late, actually.”

“Well, that’s not what I meant, but I’ll bite. Late for what?”

“For work,” he replied as he tried to angle his muscular body around my slight one.

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