picoult, jodi, mercy by Mercy

Author:Mercy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-01-23T03:36:35.170000+00:00

"You put too much soap in the dishwasher," he muttered. "It never gets clean that way. We're eating off a film." Allie nodded and turned back to the dishwasher, now removing the plates. She set them one by one into the cupboard, making a long, scraping sound each time. Cam slammed his bowl down on the counter. He waited for Allie to turn around and ask him what the hell his problem was--not that he planned to mention that it had been four days since he'd seen Mia and she still hadn't returned to Wheelock. He wanted Allie to glare at him and tell him to load the goddamned dishwasher himself. He wanted to get a rise out of her. He wanted her to provoke him, so he could justify all the anger that was seeping from inside him. Instead, like always, Allie just smiled. "Sorry," she said. "Got a headache?" Cam turned away. If he admitted to the throbbing at his temples, she'd probably force him down on the couch and make him drink some crap brewed with dandelions. She wouldn't let him go to work until he was feeling better. Until she'd made everything better. Cam did not like himself these days. He watched Allie bustle around the kitchen, getting the house "ready," as she called it, before they both disappeared off to work. He could find fault with nearly every move she made, from the way she twisted shut the faucets to the place she put the milk back in the refrigerator. He knew the problem was not Allie herself, or her ordinary routine--a routine he'd grown accustomed to, in which he was the primary beneficiary of her care and her attention to detail. It was simply that Allie was not someone else. Allie walked up behind him and slipped one arm around his waist, leaning her cheek against his back. "Are you sure you're all right?" she asked, her voice steady and low, modulated to soothe. For some reason this only irritated him more. I'm sorry, he wanted to say. / don't mean to do this to you. But the words wouldn't come, and this made him angry too. He pulled away from her. "Can't you just leave me alone?" Allie flinched slightly, something he knew he was not supposed to see; and then using what must have been all of her strength, she summoned a wide, forgiving smile. Cam stared hard

at her for a long moment before he grabbed his hat and his gun belt and fled out the door. Cam had been subpoenaed for Jamie's grand jury hearing. It was hardly a surprise, since he'd been the arresting officer, but that didn't make it any easier to publicly speak against his own cousin. He had never been more aware of the phrases he chose to string together for a testimony, of the two distinct definitions of a sentence. "He came into the center of town," Cam said, in answer to Audra Campbell's question, "and he asked to speak to me.

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