In The Dark by Richard Laymon

Author:Richard Laymon
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Horror, Fiction - Horror, Women librarians, Fiction, California, Horror - General, Horror stories, Horror fiction, City and town life, College teachers
ISBN: 9780843949162
Publisher: Leisure Books
Published: 2002-08-27T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-five

Monday was easier for Jane.

Since Brace hadn't gotten in touch with her yesterday, a day they'd set aside for being together, the chances of a call or visit from him today were slim.

Worse than slim.

So she didn't wait around for him. After getting up late in the morning, she skipped breakfast and went to the Donnerville Fashion Mall.

As she wandered from shop to shop, it dawned on her that she could afford to buy anything she saw. I really could, she thought. There was probably nothing in the entire mall that cost as much as $12,550 -- her take, so far, from the Game. She hadn't brought that much with her, of course. She'd brought five hundred of it, and left the rest hidden at home.

The five hundred dollars in her purse felt like a fortune.

What'll I do with it? she wondered.

Buy a wheelchair, maybe.

Oh, it's not quite that bad. Almost, but not quite.

With every step, Jane's body ached. The aches came from muscles that had been worked hard. They reminded her of the running. They reminded her that she was becoming stronger, slimmer.

In a sporting goods shop, she bought new running shoes, a pair of shiny blue shorts, and a gray tank top. She also bought two iron weights that looked like miniature barbells and weighed twelve pounds each.

She carried her purchases out to the parking lot, shut them in the trunk of her car, and returned to the mall.

She bought two blouses, one skirt, pajamas that were royal blue and shiny like satin, three pairs of panties that were very sexy and expensive and that she doubted anyone but her would ever see, and a bikini that she intended to wear nowhere except inside her fenced back yard.

She hurried on to the bookstore, and helped herself to eight paperbacks she'd put off buying for several weeks.

It's great to have money, she thought.

At the food court, she ate cashew chicken.

Then she left the mall and drove across the road to the Cineplex. She bought a ticket, but she avoided the refreshment stand.

By the time the movie ended, she was eager to get home.

It came as a disappointment, but no surprise, that Brace wasn't at the house waiting for her.

The mail had arrived. It didn't include a letter from Mog.

Without an answering machine, she didn't know whether Brace had called. She doubted it, though.

"Ask me if I care," she muttered.

She wandered about the house, looking here and there just to make sure Mog hadn't left a new envelope for her. It was a casual search, however; she didn't really expect to find one.

A glance out the kitchen window showed sunlight on the patio. Jane picked the book she was most eager to start, then snipped the tags off her new bikini. She changed in her bedroom. And stared at her image in the mirror.

She supposed she had always wanted a bikini like this. Never dared, though. Afraid someone might see her in it.

After the negligee from Mog, this thing seemed downright modest.

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