The Ragged by Brett Schumacher

Author:Brett Schumacher [Schumacher, Brett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-07-20T20:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Celeste stepped out of the shower, once again thoroughly disappointed in the lack of heat and water pressure. The mirror above the sink was completely clear of steam as she toweled off and did her skincare routine. All the myriad horrors of the farmhouse paled in comparison to the dismal quality of the shower.

Andrew had warned her before they even got to the house that the pressure and temperature were bad when he had lived there over twenty years before, but she had no way of preparing for the weak stream of water that trickled lazily out of the shower head. A long, hot shower was at the top of Celeste’s list for when she got home.

She exited the bathroom and threw on her pajamas before heading downstairs to find Andrew, who was strangely absent from the bedroom. As she rounded the corner at the bottom of the stairs into the living room, she saw him sitting on the couch with an empty cup, the bottom of which had the telltale tawny brown of his favorite whiskey. Andrew looked up at her and flashed a great big, dopey smile with half-shut eyes. She gave him a quizzical look in return.

“How many glasses of that have you had?” She asked, astonished at the speed with which Andrew had gotten drunk. Her shower hadn’t been that long.

“Just the one,” his words slurred as he spoke. “But it’s really good.”

“Sure sounds like it.”

Celeste made her way to the bottle on the counter to check it out. It was 80 proof, which wasn’t out of the ordinary for Andrew’s taste. Not to mention that the bottle was still mostly full. A concerning thought passed through her mind.

“I’m fairly certain you’re not supposed to drink alcohol with pain meds,” she said as she made her way to the couch and took a seat next to him.

“I mean, it’s just the over-the-counter stuff,” he said. “And I didn’t even have a full cup. But you sure have a couple of full cups on you, baby.”

She batted his hands away as he leaned forward to cop a feel of her chest. Great, horny Andrew was there. She loved horny Andrew.

“Okay,” she said, standing up and pulling him off the couch. “Let’s get you to bed.”

“I bet you’d like to,” he put on his best attempt at a sexy voice.

“Oh yeah, you know me. You’ve really got me pegged.”

He giggled at her poor word choice. “Maybe if I play my cards right.”

She had to admit that she set him up for that one. It was a slow pitch over home plate. Any idiot could’ve swung at that, especially a drunk idiot.

One step at a time, Celeste managed to haul Andrew’s increasingly loopy body up to the bedroom, his one-liners getting worse by the minute. By the time he was lying in bed, his seduction tactics had devolved into him simply spreading his legs and raising his eyebrows repeatedly. She threw the blanket over him and turned off the lamp before walking away.

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