Brothers & Sisters by Adele O'Neill

Author:Adele O'Neill [O'Neill, Adele]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786696786
Publisher: Aria
Published: 2017-05-24T23:00:00+00:00

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Just before eight, Alex popped the card in the slot to illuminate Louise’s room. The housekeeping team had already drawn the curtains and Louise’s clothes were draped messily across the backs of the upholstered chairs. The room had been serviced but there was no mistaking that Louise had been here. Some of her jewellery lay tangled on the dresser and a half-squeezed bottle of moisturiser slouched on the desktop. Alex checked the clock; it wasn’t like her not to show up.

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‘You know what’s funny?’ Next door, Louise disentangled herself from Kelly’s clasp.

Kelly lifted the sheet that barely covered them both. ‘Eh, no,’ he said, smirking, eyeing her naked body next to his under the tunnel the sheet had created.

‘Behave, I didn’t mean…’ Louise playfully sighed and pulled the sheet back over them. ‘I mean,’ she turned his jaw towards her so that he could look her in the eyes, ‘I think it’s funny, that we can work with each other, every day,’ her finger traced the black and grey hairs that curled on his chest, ‘and get on so well.’ Kelly shrugged as though that was a matter of opinion. ‘Behave, we do get on well.’ She slapped him gently. ‘I mean,’ she opened her eyes wider; she needed him to know that she was serious, ‘it’s just that we spend all this time together and we barely know anything about each other.’

‘We do, we know loads,’ Kelly answered. He ran his hand gently over the curve of her hip to her ribcage and back to park his hand across her waist.

‘Oh really, you didn’t even know I had a sister called Alex,’ Louise exclaimed.

‘True,’ Kelly answered. ‘Well what do you want to know, then, shoot.’

‘I don’t know, what do you want to tell me?’ she asked. There were so many questions swimming around her brain.

‘There’s nothing to tell, what you see with Tony Kelly is what you get,’ he said.

She lifted her head from where she lay in the crux of his arm and pushed herself upright on the bed, folding her legs in front of her, and pulled the sheet up over her chest and tucked it around herself.

‘Although, if you must know, my legs don’t fold like that,’ he joked. She continued to look at him, unsatisfied that he was taking her seriously enough. ‘I have a feeling though,’ Kelly scooched himself up in the bed, placing a pillow behind his back, ‘that there is a question that you would like to ask me.’

‘I just want to know more, more about Tony, that’s all,’ Louise said.

‘Just ask, and it really feels weird when you call me Tony, I keep thinking I’m in trouble.’

‘Well, where do you go every Tuesday afternoon, for instance?’ It had been a question she had wanted to ask for months. She wondered at times could it have been AA meetings, but then she never really saw any signs of that, and besides, she was his drinking buddy so if it was AA it wasn’t working.

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