Kill Well by David Guenette

Author:David Guenette
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: climate change fiction books, climate change thriller, climate fiction, global warming thriller, science fiction climate change thriller, cli-fi, climate fiction series
Publisher: David Guenette
Published: 2023-08-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 30: Deidre Does Dizzy

Davin can’t help but think Deidre seems a bit stunned.

He’s just carried down a suitcase from her mother’s borrowed car up in the parking area and is giving her the tour. It isn’t like she hasn’t seen the house, but the previous visit had been rushed. She had gotten to all the questions he’d had, and got a quick look at the bedroom, and had presented him the deposit check, but she hadn’t really gotten a good sense of the place, is his guess.

Jimmy comes in to drop off double-stacked boxes and heads back up toward her car.

Davin tries to look at the space from her perspective, and it is indeed a lovely room they are standing in, her new bedroom, lovely, albeit on the small side but with plenty of light. She’s standing by the double bed that’s part of the furnishings provided, but then she steps past him through the room’s exterior entry door and onto a small deck that has a small umbrellaed patio table. She sits herself down in one of the two plastic chairs that go with the table.

Davin follows her but stops in the doorway.

“It really is a nice space, a nice house,” she says, and Davin assumes she’s speaking to him, but he isn’t entirely convinced.

She looks at him. “The first time I saw it, I, I feel like I didn’t really see it.”

Her room is on the north side of the house, so the deck is mostly in shade now, although there was still a bit of morning sunlight when she’d gotten here, Davin had been glad to note. The ash tree close to the northwest corner of the deck helps keep the deck cool through the later part of the day, the shade of it blocking some of the afternoon slant of sun.

“With the sudden vacate notice and all, you know, I felt all in a hurry,” she adds.

“So, an act of desperation,” Davin quips, but he sees right away Deidre has taken this the wrong way.

“No no no,” she says, even as Davin tells her he’s just kidding.

Jimmy steps onto the small deck, another double stack of boxes in his arms, Davin stepping back into the room to give him passage, telling him he can drop her stuff in the library to give her some space for settling in. Davin pokes his head back through the outside door and tells Deidre he’s happy to continue the tour, and she gets up to follow him through the bedroom and into the room with all the bookshelves.

“The library,” he announces, rather needlessly, stepping around the boxes Jimmy’s just dropped in the middle of the floor before he heads into the living room and out the French doors to grab another load from the car up in the back.

“The layout of the house can be a bit confusing and takes some time to figure out,” Davin says to Deidre, who can’t help but look over the books on the shelves nearest her.

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