The Kurdish Bike by Alesa Lightbourne

Author:Alesa Lightbourne [Lightbourne, Alesa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Indie Author Project

Damned flu. Every joint and organ aches, like being beaten up on the inside. A million needles poke at my skin; my eyes can barely focus. It’s just a fever, like everybody else has. Jennifer has been absent for two days now. Pat and Khalil are failing fast; Layla is just getting over it. I go next door to Layla’s before bedtime and knock.

“Can I still have that flu medicine you were talking about?”

Layla hastily knots the sash of her kimono. She is curiously flat without a bra, and girlish-looking with bare legs and feet — an endearing side to her I’d never noticed before. “Sure. Wait here.”

She shuts the door, leaving me out in the drafty corridor, and I hear voices inside, one low, raspy, and coughing. She returns with a bottle of Nyquil. “Here. Bring back what you don’t need tomorrow, okay? Somebody else still needs it too.”

I shuffle back to bed, miffed at the attempt at secrecy. How clueless — or narrow-minded — does she think I am? And why does she think I’d even care who she had in there?

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.