A Captive in Time by Sarah Dreher

Author:Sarah Dreher [Dreher, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Lesbian Mystery
ISBN: 0934678227
Publisher: New Victoria Publishers
Published: 2015-08-03T22:00:00+00:00

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The next day she was able to come downstairs, even though it took all her strength. Her knees and arms felt like wet Kleenex.

Billy watched her, grinning as if Stoner’s recovery were her own personal achievement.

“God,” Stoner said as she dropped onto the hard seat at the table. “I can’t believe how weak I am.”

“You’ve had a bad time of it,” Blue Mary said. “No defenses against our brand of influenza, I suppose.”

She glanced out the window. The plains beyond were snowless, gray. The sky hung like a thin slate-y curtain over the landscape.

Billy brought her a mug of coffee and sat down opposite and watched eagerly as she drank.

After a while it began to make her uncomfortable. “You don’t seem as if you were sick at all,” she said.

Billy shrugged. “I get down low, but come back fast.”

Blue Mary brought her a plate of fried bacon and beans. The odor awakened a ravenous hunger. “Now, you can eat as much of this as you like, but try to go slow. Your stomach’s probably sensitive.”

She felt herself turn crimson. “I didn’t throw up, did I? Along with everything else?”

“Only a little,” Billy said.

Stoner wanted to sink through the floor. She picked at the beans and bacon. “Big Dot warned me against food like this.”

Blue Mary smiled. “Told you that story, did she? Did she tell you how she shot the old coot?”

Stoner nodded.

“Did she bother to tell you he’d fired on her first?”

“No, she didn’t.”

“Well, that’s just like her,” Blue Mary said. “Modest to a fault.”

Billy was shifting around in an excited kind of way. “Dot shot someone? In cold blood?”

“Not really,” Blue Mary said. “Her blood was running hot at the time.”

“Yeah, but he’d fired on her, and she still managed to shoot him? She wasn’t scared?”

“I’m sure she was scared,” Blue Mary said patiently. “But it didn’t make her inaccurate.”

“Think she’d teach me how to shoot like that?”

Blue Mary shook her head. “I really doubt it. You know how she feels about that.”

Billy pouted and kicked a chair.

“You know, Billy,” Blue Mary said with a laugh, “you’re beginning to act like a boy.”

Billy looked up sharply. “I am?”

“Furniture kicking?” Blue Mary prodded.

“Aw, heck,” Billy said with a shrug and a grin, “I’ve always been a furniture-kicker.”

Stoner realized she was grinning, herself. Staring at Billy as if she couldn’t get enough of her. And grinning.

“What happened to the snow?” she asked quickly.

“Didn’t you hear the rain?”

She could remember, but it got all mixed up with her dreams. “I guess I did.”

“It usually happens that way with the first snow,” Blue Mary explained. “Warm rain comes along and just washes it away.”

Stoner stirred her beans, and noticed that Billy was watching her, too. “I guess it was foolish of us to go out in the storm like that.”

“Not in the least,” Blue Mary said. “If you’d left Billy there another twenty-four hours, she wouldn’t have pulled through. She was a very sick young lady.”

“You saved my life,” Billy said.

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