Blood Rubies by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Valancourt Books
Published: 2016-04-29T00:00:00+00:00

“That’s Dominic and Rita on the couch. They’re communing with their astral bodies.”

“Hi,” grinned Sid, with obviously feigned camaraderie. “Can I call you Flora?”

“My name’s Andrea.”

The paperback was lowered, and Andrea saw a pair of extraordinarily pale gray eyes, slightly crossed. Morgie’s white face was narrow and sharp, and her thin mouth was painted a vibrant red. She looked like a valentine. “I read this book once,” she said, “and there was this girl named Andrea in it. She got raped and then put in jail for killing this man who turned out to be her uncle. So it was incest too. It was a good book, did you read it?” Morgie’s voice was so thin and rasping that Andrea had to fight the impulse to cringe.

“Want a beer?” asked Jack.

Andrea nodded; Sid and Morgie raised their hands to be included. Jack touched Andrea on the shoulder with a tenderness for which she was grateful in such alien straits.

He was gone before she began to wonder if she shouldn’t follow him into the kitchen. She looked around her helplessly. How was she to act toward them? What was she to say? Andrea realized suddenly how genteel her life had been, without her ever thinking it so. She stood vaguely in the center of the faded cotton Oriental rug. No one asked her to take a seat, but Andrea thought perhaps they did not wish to call attention to the fact that there were no other chairs in the room.

At last, feeling herself conspicuous standing in the middle of the room, she seated herself cross-legged before the stereo system and made out as if she were concentrating on the music.

It was the grass they smoked in the alley behind the Brimmer House, Andrea decided, that made her feel so strange. If she had had more, all this wouldn’t have bothered her; if she hadn’t smoked at all, she would have been able to deal with everything.

The music was on tape, and one incomprehensible song followed another; Andrea, who sat facing that corner of wall where the stereo apparatus was situated, grew almost afraid of turning around, and only now and then glanced at the unstirring sleepers on the sofa. She knew she was still stoned when she realized with what fascination she watched the rhythmical rise and fall of the dark man’s hairless chest. Only when he finally moved in his sleep, thrusting his hand all the way down inside his pants, did she look away, in embarrassment. Though it seemed an eternity since he had left for the kitchen, Jack had not yet returned. The tape was nearing its end, and when there was no more music, Andrea knew that she would not be able to continue as she was, staring at the half dozen expensive components.

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