[Ash Park 01.0] Famished by Meghan O'Flynn

Author:Meghan O'Flynn [O'Flynn, Meghan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Thriller
Goodreads: 36911863
Publisher: Pygmalion Publishing
Published: 2016-05-17T06:00:00+00:00

Thursday, November 12th

I chewed on my cheek, trying to ground myself in the pain of it. The thought of leaving tonight and having to find another shelter in another city made me sick to my stomach. I just had to save a little more cash so I could legitimately start over, on my own two feet. Because whether or not Jake was killed by the same person as those other women, someone killed him. Someone who could be watching me right now. I felt like I was losing my mind. Maybe I was paranoid, but that didn’t mean that someone wasn’t out to get me.

The owls smirked at me from under my pointless blank cork board. No puppies, no babies, and I had never even picked my nose behind the partition. I should start, so that when I was old and gray in a rocking chair on a porch somewhere with an owl on a perch next to me, I would at least have this one small thing I could say I took advantage of when the rest of my life fell apart. I looked at my finger.

“Ms. Montgomery?”

The finger disappeared under my desk.

“May I sit down?”

“Yes. I mean, yes, sir.” My heart quickened and slithered up my throat like an agitated python.

He took the seat across from me, his black suit and lavender tie too good for here. He stuck out like a penguin at a Bar-B-Que.

An incredibly handsome penguin. Do people fuck penguins? That seems ill advised, and yet …

Weeks of subpar sleep were creeping up on me and manifesting as slap happy absurdity.

“Something funny?” he asked.

I had not realized I was smiling. I really am losing my mind. “No, sir.”

“Please call me Dominic.”

“Yes sir … I mean, Dominic.” I put my fingers to my mouth to stop the goofy-ass grin.

“I hope you have been able to cope with the events of the last couple weeks satisfactorily.”

“Uh … I’ve been okay.”

“I notice you didn’t take any time off. I was frankly surprised that you came back so quickly.”

“I know, I just … feel better staying busy.”

“If you need more time, a week, a month, the offer still stands.”

“Thank you. Thank you for the flowers, too. They were gorgeous.” Oh my god, Hannah, stop babbling.

“Is there anything I can do to help?” he said.

Yeah, teleport me out of this state. Maybe out of the country. Or off the planet. “No.”

He studied my face. “Let me know if you think of anything,” he said quietly.

“Yes, sir. Thank you.”

“Dominic.” He smiled. His teeth were the straightest I had ever seen.

“Dominic.”

And as abruptly as he’d arrived, he was gone. My stomach dropped a little. I told myself it was hunger and not disappointment.

“Hannah! What did he say?” Noelle’s head appeared over the cubicle. Would she miss me after I packed up and left? Maybe I would call her one day, years from now, from another state. From another life. More likely, I’d stare at her number and wonder what ever happened to her.

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