Click by Marx Sara

Author:Marx, Sara [Marx, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Bella Books
Published: 2014-12-10T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Though she hadn’t been in a pool for years, Shel sat at the edge of the backyard pool wearing the closest thing she had to swimwear: sweat shorts and a T-shirt. She gently lowered herself into the shallow end and slowly began to move about. Low-impact exercises, Milford had instructed her after summoning her from sleep with the faulty doorbell. It was the second such time in less than twenty-four hours. As she’d watched the bedside clock until nearly four a.m., Shel was angry about the disruption at first. She quickly forgave the visit when she realized it was already early afternoon.

Milford had stopped over during her lunch break with no real update on the SLW, LLC mystery. In truth, Shel knew the cop was checking on her sordid state of mind and rotten back. She promised Milford both were improving.

Moving around the sun-warmed pool felt like trying to walk off rigor mortis. She waded slowly through the shallower end and discovered that after several minutes, she was feeling slightly better. She continued gentle movement, hoping for continual improvement, but recovery was only marginal. She gave up and free floated with her face to the sunny sky.

It was funny, relaxing in the pool she’d cleaned and filled, out back of the home she’d rented in a real neighborhood, and it all felt terribly domestic. Never before had she the slightest desire to be stuck in one place or have a home. She was used to hustling just enough jobs to pay rent on maybe four hundred squares in the city. Compared to that, life in the slow lane in Naples didn’t seem too bad. She considered she could get used to it, while alternately wondering if Naples’ brand of small-town quiet could eventually cause her to go stir crazy. Perhaps she’d become like Milford. It changed the feeling of her momentary lapse to domestic fantasy and she grimaced.

She knew better than to get used to feeling even remotely settled, particularly here. She wasn’t the type. Anyway, she’d be done with the seaside town soon, only the leftover white sand in her shoes to show she’d been here at all. Possibly there was money ahead. Definitely there was freedom.

Shel stayed in the pool until her skin was sufficiently pruned and pinking. She gently hoisted herself onto the aluminum ladder and slowly climbed up and out then leaned against the porch railing to let the sun dry her.

At a child’s shrieking scream she forgot about her back. With a strength and speed she didn’t even know she was capable of, Shel ran around the side of the house toward the street. Another shrill scream had her running full force across the street. In seconds she was hammering her fist against the front door. If harm came to the child living there, Shel would be to blame. Her stomach was in knots. She wished she hadn’t seen enough in her career to know how vulnerable kids truly are.

She pressed her face against the front window, but saw no movement.

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