Trapdoor by Vixen Phillips

Author:Vixen Phillips [Vixen Phillips]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Erotica, Gay, Literary, Psychological
Publisher: Feedbooks
Published: 2010-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Pegasus: Blood Makes Noise...

I wish they would just stop.

I wish it would all just stop.

I lie on the sofa, staring at my reflection in the mirror of the blank TV. No light, no sound, no point.

They wouldn’t allow me to see Raven, after he was sick. But I heard them talking, in the kitchen, once they thought I wasn’t around to hear.

“Are you taking the case?” Noriko asked.

“I don’t know, Nori,” Monty replied, standing over the sink with his head down, arms folded beneath him. “It’s hardly my area of speciality. Besides, even if I am free on Tuesday—”

“What? He needs you. You’re family.”

“Yeah? And what if I lose, huh? Could you imagine? He’d never forgive me. I couldn’t deal with that. Fuck, I never asked for this kind of responsibility!” He seemed close to breaking, but I couldn’t feel any pity for him. He was the one who’d told me not to see Raven. That it wasn’t a good idea. He was the one who invited that son of a bitch in at the door, to tell Raven, to tell him—

“Yeah, it’s not like you lawyers have a thing for dealing with responsibility, huh?” she said then, crossing her arms over her chest.

Monty rubbed at his hair, then straightened up. “There’s a colleague of mine—you met Judy. She’s had more experience with these sort of things. I’ll put her onto it.”

“You don’t think he’s going to win, do you?”

They exchanged a glance, Monty open-mouthed but silent. Go on, say it, you bastard. Tell the truth.

“No,” he said. And then they both turned to see me standing there, like two parents caught out playing Santa at Christmas. I ran off. Neither of them followed.

So here I sit, in the silence of my doom, broken only by her screams and his grunts and their moans coming from down the hall. They’re fucking, like nothing happened. You don’t care. Neither of you care. And you call yourself his family? You make me sick. I’m the only one who cares.

I’m the only one who cares, and yet here I am, just sitting here, staring off into space. To hell with this. I’m more than these fears.

I fight my way out of the doona and my numbness and follow the carpet down the hallway. With every step, the screaming and moaning and grunting and panting grows louder. I have no idea which room is Raven’s. But at least I know which one to avoid.

The first door on the left, past the toilet where he was sick, is the first door I try. I knock gently to announce my entrance. Then I cautiously turn the handle. The door swings open, and I step inside.

My eyes don’t even need to adjust to the light; white candles crowd the small space, burning constantly into the night, burning like they’ve always been here, as though, if their flames were ever to die, another more precious thing might die with them. Definitely not Raven’s room.

I glance about the

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