The Pandora Room: A Novel by Christopher Golden

Author:Christopher Golden [Golden, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Thrillers, Supernatural, Horror
ISBN: 9781250192103
Google: p5tyDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B07CWQB3KS
Barnesnoble: B07CWQB3KS
Goodreads: 39863509
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2019-04-23T05:00:00+00:00

SIXTEEN

Beyza nearly jumped out of her skin when she drew back the curtain to enter her room and saw Cortez sitting on the end of her bed in the dark. Only the slash of light from the corridor cast any illumination, and she held the curtain open so she could get a look at him.

“What are you doing in here?” she said quietly, urgently, voice muffled by her mask. “Are you okay?”

Cortez made a sort of huff that reminded her of her father’s favorite dog. “You’re joking, right?”

Beyza let the curtain drop behind her and reached out to grab the power cord that hung from overhead. She clicked on the lights, a rack of three that had been arrayed along the left side of the chamber. Cortez shied away from the brightness, but when he glanced up, she saw the sadness in his eyes.

“Perhaps okay is the wrong word,” she admitted. The tension and anxiety caught up with her, then, and she swore under her breath.

“I’m not going to ask how you are,” Cortez said. “Just come over here.”

Beyza smiled wearily and went to join him. It felt strange to be in such a quiet place with this man with whom she shared such intimacy, when so much horror had been unfolding around them.

“You’re not supposed to be in here,” she told him. “I thought this thing between us was meant to be a secret.”

“I needed to see you. To be with you,” Cortez said, pushing her hair away from her eyes. “You still look silly with that mask on.”

“You’re still silly looking.” Beyza turned her back to him. “Massage my shoulders? I’m all knotted up.”

He obliged, softly at first and then more forcefully, kneading her neck and shoulders before he leaned in to kiss her in those tender places. Beyza shivered with pleasure and pain and the release of tension.

“This isn’t really the time,” she told him, face flushing. She took his hand and put a little distance between them, but she stayed on the bed. “Something is going on. Dmitri and Rachel are sick. Hallucinating, too.”

Cortez paled. “Were you with them?”

“I didn’t touch them, if that’s what you’re asking. I’m not stupid. Nobody coughed on me, either, but we really need to be careful. You are supposed to be confined to your quarters, for instance.”

“I could be confined to your quarters.”

He gave her that smile that always destroyed her, the one that had persuaded her into bed with him in the first place. Well, not bed. The first time they’d made love, it had been up on the rocky hill on top of Derveyî, on a moonless night but with an ocean of stars across the sky. And it hadn’t been making love then; it had been pure fucking. Beyza could not have said if they had ever really made love, but whenever she was with Cortez, she forgot her husband, forgot how unhappy her life had been before coming onto this project. This kind, handsome, playful man

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