Faces in the Fire by Hines

Author:Hines
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc.
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

9b.

She was no mother. She knew it. This, despite having a daughter. And she was no wife either. This, despite having a husband.

She curled into a ball on the bed of the small, ratty hotel room, shivering. It was hot outside—a ninety-plus day being something of a rare occurrence in Seattle, she’d been told by the woman at the front desk—but she shivered all the same.

It wasn’t that she didn’t want to be a mother. A wife. She just couldn’t. Something was broken inside her. Missing. She had her own mother to thank for that, in many ways.

So she had left. For them, really. For Kenneth, her husband, and for Tiffany. They were better off without her. She knew it. Deep inside, probably they even knew it. Besides, she was here to avoid repeating her earlier mistake; Seattle would have places to take care of that, she knew. It was a city, and cities always had solutions to any problems you might face.

Also, she was better off without them. At least she would be, she knew, once she figured out where she was going, what she was doing. That was the other reason she was here, in Seattle. Wasn’t it? She couldn’t just go back, after walking out like that. Running out.

A giant thump next door broke her reverie. Something falling. Or someone.

She’d seen the guy in the next room a few times, out in the lobby, that kind of thing. He’d been in the hotel even longer than she had, and she’d been here four days now. She’d listened to him talking on the phone a few times, fascinated by his accent. Russian, she guessed. A little weird, too; he wandered around the hotel in bare feet, or sometimes just socks, even though he wore a complete suit with a tie. Maybe it was some Russian custom she didn’t know about. She had no idea what he did, or how he came to be in this particular place at this particular time.

Of course, she had no idea how she came to be in this particular place at this particular time.

She listened intently for another sound of any kind from next door. Some scuffling, maybe, voices. Not much else. Was that good or bad? Should she go check?

No, no she shouldn’t. She was here in her own world, in her Gray Zone, comfortably cocooned away from contact with others. She needed this.

But then: yes, yes she should. She should check because . . . well, because something just didn’t seem right.

Yes, it was surely stupid to just walk next door, knock on the door, possibly walk into a situation she knew nothing about.

But she’d done stupid things before. Got married. Had a kid. Those were biggies, and would certainly be difficult to top. It wasn’t that she hated the idea, or felt like being a wife or a mother was beneath her. Just the opposite: she wasn’t up to being either. She herself was just a scared, weak little girl inside, and there was no way she could be the person a family needed.

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