The Mansion_A Novel by Ezekiel Boone

Author:Ezekiel Boone [Boone, Ezekiel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B07CMWDTMV
Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Published: 2018-12-04T00:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-TWO

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RUN

Emily still hadn’t gotten used to the idea of not working, but she figured she was just going to have to deal with it. She was going to be at loose ends for as long as they were in Whiskey Run. Billy had a purpose: he was here to work with Nellie, to figure out how to turn her into Shawn’s next few hundred billion dollars. If it worked out, she and Billy would get to go along for the ride. And Billy, being Billy, was going to be working odd hours. It had been years since she’d seen him truly consumed by a project, but when he was, he forgot about niceties such as meals and showers and clocks. Bedtime became an abstraction to him. By the end of a month he’d be completely divorced from anything approaching a normal schedule. It was like he and whatever computer thing he was working on were having some sort of private conversation that was so darn interesting he just couldn’t stand to go to sleep. Interesting to Billy, at least. She cared about his work because she cared about him, but she was secretly a bit of a Luddite. Sure, she liked her new running gear and had been happy to spend money on things like new skis and camping equipment, good restaurants and vacations, fancy coffee and the occasional concert, when she had actual money to spend, but when it came to computers and tech stuff, well, she was willing to pretend to pay attention.

But with Billy working on Nellie and keeping his own mad-scientist schedule, she was going to be left to her own devices. If she wasn’t going to go crazy locked up in this ridiculous mansion all winter, she was going to have to keep herself busy. So this first morning after sleeping in the Nest she’d gotten up early, before the sun. Not that getting up before the sun was a particularly impressive feat on the second day of November. Billy was already up and working.

Or maybe he hadn’t come to bed yet. He’d been working when she went to sleep the night before, heading to the office as soon as Shawn and Wendy left, and she hadn’t heard him come into the bedroom. Not that it mattered. His being on an unpredictable schedule was just one more thing she’d have to get used to. She’d see him some days, she wouldn’t see him other days.

She was awake before it mattered, but Nellie pulled some sort of neat little acoustical trick so that the alarm clock—a soft fade-in of a rooster crowing, which Emily took as a sign that Nellie might have a sense of humor of sorts—seemed like it was coming through headphones. The lights, of course, as Wendy had described, were equally discreet. There had been a dim, relaxing glow when Emily went to sleep, and to wake her up, Nellie had chosen the sound of the rooster to coincide with an artificial sunrise that was localized to her side of the bed.

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