What Hides Within by Parent Jason

Author:Parent, Jason [Parent, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub
Tags: Mystery and Thrillers
Publisher: Double Dragon Publishing
Published: 2012-07-24T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 27

Clive stalled outside the doors of his not-so-gainful employer. It was Monday morning and his big return to Harcourt. He'd considered calling in sick. As he paced outside his employer's red brick walls, he couldn't understand why he hadn't. He knew that feigning illness would only delay his discomfort. The questions, the insinuations and the over-glorified assumptions would soon dominate interoffice gossip. But a delay at least offered a temporary reprieve. With the way he partied the other night, and with his boss nonetheless, Clive gave himself no reasonable excuse for calling out. No, he would have to face them all. If not today, then tomorrow.

"This is going to suck."

You brought this upon yourself, Clive. But you may be in luck. I don't think anybody noticed you and Judith. That is, other than you and Judith. You're still going to have to face her, though.

"Chester!" Clive felt his first semblance of peace since Chester's inexplicable disappearance two nights prior. "I thought you left me!"

Wow, Clive! Did you actually miss me?

The truth of the matter was that Clive, surprisingly, had missed Chester. In his mind, she was the only one left who hadn't betrayed him. He wasn't about to stroke her ego any more than he already had, however.

"I never said your leaving was a bad thing," he lied. "It's just that--"

You missed me.

"Oh, fuck you! You know that's not it."

Sure it is.

Clive knew he couldn't deceive Chester. She seemed to know his every thought even before he did. He jumped on the chance to change the topic.

"Where were you, anyway?"

I needed some sleep. All that alcohol you consumed affected me, too.

"There was a constant throbbing in my head last night. I was beginning to think you had dug in somewhere you weren't supposed to. Not that there's anywhere in there you're supposed to be."

Oh, yeah, sorry about that. I had company.

"What do you mean, you had company?"

I had a visitor.

"Inside my head? You had a visitor inside my head?"

You know, some private time with a friend. Do I need to spell it out for you?

In fact, Chester didn't need to spell it out for Clive. He understood her rather clearly.

"Awe, gross! You had sex inside my head."

Yeah, like you're one to criticize. Must I remind you of the exhibitionist bestiality display you and your boss made me watch the other night?

"Chester, try to see things from my point of view. I'm still wary about having one spider in my head. Now you're having houseguests?"

You can relax. I cleaned up after myself.

"That's not the point. I don't know where he's been. I don't want just anyone spreading his seed all over my delicate brain. Where'd you meet this guy, anyway?"

He was just someone I met in my travels.

"Is it . . . he still in there with you?"

No. I disposed of him.

"Disposed of him? How?"

I ate him. Well, parts of him, anyway. The parts I didn't want, you ate. No biggie.

"Is that what I had caught in my throat this morning? Fucking nasty! It felt like I swallowed a cherry stem.

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