Turbulence by Stuart Woods

Author:Stuart Woods
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2018-06-05T04:00:00+00:00

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THEY FINISHED THEIR DRINKS about the time the evening chill came in, then repaired to their respective rooms. Stone and Kelly unpacked and dressed for dinner, then sat down to relax.

“You know,” Kelly said, “when I was recruited they never said there would be experiences like this. It was all to be cheap hotels and tiny rental cars: the government life.”

“Try not to get used to it,” Stone said, “because this doesn’t exist anywhere else.”

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THEY WALKED DOWN the stairway, with sounds of chamber music wafting through the ground floor, and were directed to the library, which seemed to occupy one entire side of the house. The chamber orchestra was playing on a marble balcony, and dining tables were distributed along the sides before bookcases on two levels, one halfway to the ceiling, reached by spiral staircases in each widely separated corner.

Finely dressed couples wandered about the room, clutching champagne flutes, pursued by footmen with bottles in each hand, constantly refilling.

“We’re at table number ten,” Stone said, consulting his schedule, “just over there.” He nodded at a table in the center of the room before a tall set of French doors, through which lingering bits of sunset could still be seen.

“Can you imagine occupying this house as a family?” Eggers asked.

“I cannot,” Stone replied. “I expect they have an apartment somewhere that’s built on a more human scale.” Then he spotted something he thought of as less than human: Selwyn Owaki had entered the room, on his arm Chaka Kerwin.

Stone’s skin crawled.

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