Megan Hart - The Resurrected 01 by The Resurrected

Author:The Resurrected [Resurrected, The]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Chaos Publishing
Published: 2012-06-01T13:08:53+00:00

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It probably wasn't the first time she'd slept with a married man, but that didn't make the news any more palatable. Abbie shrugged. "Not my business.""My ex-wife," Cal amended. "She lives between here and Ada. I should make sure she's okay."

Ada was a town, not a person. She remembered that much. Cal turned without waiting for her to answer, still shading his eyes. Last night's journey across the street was hazy, but she did remember that they'd walked. He must've left his vehicle in the bar parking lot, and now there was little there but buckled asphalt.

Abbie wasn't accustomed to the protection of a hat the way Cal probably was, but this morning's sun was so vehemently brutal she also shaded her eyes to search for her car. A battered, dusty Volvo held together with spit and hope, it had seen her halfway across the country. It had brought her here. Once, its complicated system of airbags and seat-belts and reinforced steel had saved her life.

She hated that car, but she loved it, too.

She'd left it parked in front of her room, but it wasn't there now. She found it on the other side of the lot, skewed across three parking spaces but not on its side. She ran for it, heedless of broken glass, live wires, whatever dangers were in her way. Behind her, Cal shouted, but Abbie ignored him until her hands were flat on the Volvo's hood. The metal was hot even this early in the morning. She pressed her face to it, hugging the vehicle like a crazy woman.

This was the car in which she'd lost everything, and it was all she had left. She didn't care about the stuff in her demolished motel room -- she could replace underpants and her toothbrush; she could buy a new pair of shoes. But this car was irreplaceable and precious for that.

"I guess this is yours?"

The fact he could manage to sound amused even amongst all this destruction gave her the strength to lift her head. Her cheek felt welted. Abbie found a smile. "Yeah."

"Don't suppose you have the keys."

She held up one finger before ducking to run her hand along the back bumper. She pulled out a small black container backed with a heavy duty magnet. Inside, a key.

She held it up, triumphant. "I do."

Cal shook his head, tilting it to look at her with one squinted eye. "Lose your keys a lot, do you?"

"Have had them taken away enough times, that's all." She straightened, looking him in the eye. This wasn't the time to share her personal history, but it wasn't the time for lies either. She turned the key over and over in her fingers. It opened the trunk. She had clothes in there, she realized, some things she'd been meaning to take to the Laundromat when she found one. She could really get dressed. "Give me a few minutes, okay? I want to put on something a little more...substantial."

In the light of day after

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