Touchy and Feely (Sissy Sawyer Mysteries) by Graham Masterton

Author:Graham Masterton [Masterton, Graham]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Ingram Distribution
Published: 2011-06-01T06:00:00+00:00

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Feely opened the front door. Robert was standing in the porch, hunched up with cold, his coat-collar pulled up to cover his mouth. There was no sign of his car outside, so Feely looked up and down the street, but he couldn’t see it anywhere.

‘What is it?’ he asked.

‘What do you mean, “what is it”?’ Robert protested. ‘I went back to the diner to pick you up, and you weren’t there!’

‘Well, no, I was here.’

‘Oh, you were here. Great. You couldn’t have left a message or anything?’

‘I didn’t think you were coming back.’

‘Did I tell you I was going to come back?’

‘Yes, you did. But you said twenty minutes.’

‘Christ almighty.’ Robert shook his head in disbelief. ‘Aren’t you going to ask me in?’

‘I don’t know.’ Feely turned around to Serenity, who was standing a little way behind him.

‘Hi there,’ said Robert. ‘I’m Robert Touche.’

‘How are you doing?’ said Serenity.

Robert explained, ‘Fine, I’m good. How are you? Feely and me, we were kind of traveling together.’

‘So he told me.’

‘I thought he was going to wait for me back at the diner but when I came back he wasn’t there so I asked the woman behind the counter if she’d seen him leave and she said yes she’d seen him leave with you and you lived here on Orchard Street.’ He took a breath and said, ‘Serenity, right?’

‘That’s right.’

Robert cupped his hands in front of his mouth and blew on them. ‘Pretty damn nippy out here, Serenity. Do you mind if I come inside?’

Serenity turned her mouth down and shook her head. ‘I don’t really think so.’

‘Ha! Well, OK! It’s just that I wanted to ask Feely here if he was traveling any further. You’re still headed north, right, Feely, and I’m still headed north, so you’re welcome to come along. I’m not twisting your arm or anything. You’re good company, that’s all. But if you’re staying here . . . or you want to hitch a ride with somebody else, that’s totally up to you. Totally.’

Serenity reached up behind Feely’s back and began to twist his curls with her fingers. ‘What do you think, Feely? Do you want to chill out here for a while? Or do you want to go along with—what did you say your name was?’

‘Robert Touche. But call me Robert. Or Touchy, if you like. That’s hilarious, don’t you think? I pick up this one guy in the middle of a blizzard and he calls himself Feely. And people are always pronouncing my name wrong and calling me Touchy. So Touchy and Feely. That’s hilarious, don’t you think? Well, I can tell you’re laughing on the inside.’

Serenity said, ‘What do you want to do, Feely? Like he says, it’s totally up to you.’

‘He was the only one who had the benignity to stop for me,’ Feely admitted.

‘You see?’ said Robert.

Feely wanted to go on heading north, but he wasn’t sure that he wanted to go on heading north with Robert. He didn’t believe that Robert would ever let him down.

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