Venetian Masks by Fielding Kim

Author:Fielding, Kim [Fielding, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2013-02-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

FOR a long time, Jeff sat at the kitchen table in his underwear, forehead propped in his palms. He was so busy thinking about what was missing—all his cash, his MasterCard, and Cleve—that it took him a while to notice what wasn’t missing. His debit card and driver’s license were still there. When he got up to check his dresser drawer, he found his passport and spare credit card. All of his other belongings were present and accounted for as well: his iPhone, his Kindle—still on the living room floor after the previous night’s wrestling match—and the Longines watch his parents had bought him for his thirtieth birthday. His laptop was still on the kitchen table.

The loss of material goods wasn’t much of a disaster. He was out less than four hundred euros—and really, he’d owed one hundred of that to Cleve anyway, since Jeff hadn’t paid him the night before.

And it was only when Jeff returned to the kitchen that he saw something extra on the table: the bag containing the gift Cleve had bought him, which Jeff had forgotten about, and a folded paper with “Just Jeff” scrawled across it. Closer inspection revealed that the paper was actually the instructions for operating the water heater. Cleve must have removed the sheet from the binder.

Jeff stared at the little tableau for several minutes, holding the folded paper loosely in his hands. He finally opened it. The reverse side of the instructions had been blank but now contained a message in messy handwriting.

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