The Resurrection of Oliver Dunn by Avery Holden

Author:Avery Holden [Holden, Avery]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-01-16T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

One Year and Eight Months Before

“Trust me,” Alex said, “you’ll love this.”

Following him up the spiral stairs, Oliver rolled his eyes. “You always say that.”

“And I’m always right.”

“Incorrect.”

“When have you ever disliked anything I’ve shown you?

“Plenty of times.”

“Name one.”

“The time you drove us out of the city for ‘fresh air’ and we ran out of gas. The time you tried to light your finger on fire like a candle and lit my shirt on fire instead. The time you thought Jeremiah might want a friend—”

“Alright, alright.” Alex looked more like a petulant child than a twenty-two-year-old. His expression made Oliver laugh. “Audrey loves Meowgaret, for the record. I’m sure that cat’s living in the lap of luxury as we speak.”

“I’m sure she lives a more comfortable life than either of us,” Oliver agreed, watching Alex open the door to the observatory. “I’m just saying, I don’t know why you thought I would want—”

“Feast your eyes on this!” Alex said with a flourish, throwing the door open.

With a shake of his head, Oliver followed him in.

The observatory was its own separate floor of the estate—if a single room could be called a separate floor on its own. They entered through a small spiral staircase hidden behind a door next to Alex’s bedroom, just as they always did. Nothing about that had changed.

Nothing looked different about the interior of the observatory either, despite Alex’s declaration to the contrary.

Oliver looked around.

Located in the space above Alex’s bedroom, the observatory was a round and not very large room. A few well-worn books on astronomy sat in a hip-high bookshelf on one side of the space. Oliver knew them well, though not because he’d personally read them. Alex had gone through the books, front to back, a hundred times over.

Rather than an opaque roof, the ceiling to the observatory was made of glass. To make room for various sized telescopes, almost every pane of glass could be removed. There was only one telescope up here at the moment, however. Still, it was a sizable thing.

The lone telescope in the observatory sat on a thick tripod, and it looked like Alex had already prepared it and the windows for some stargazing tonight.

Other than that, though, there was nothing out of the ordinary.

“What exactly am I supposed to be looking at?” he asked.

“Isn’t it obvious?” Alex gestured to the sky, which was easy to see through the glass ceiling. “It’s the first clear night in months!”

Oliver hummed. That much was true. January and February had been long and dreary. The weather this month was still rather nippy, but at least the snow had more or less cleared out. Alex was right about the clouds disappearing too.

“You could have just said you wanted to stargaze,” he said.

“Don’t make it sound so plain, Ollie. We’re looking into space.”

Oliver chuckled as Alex threw his gray peacoat onto a nearby chair and rolled up his sleeves, clearly preparing to unwind.

“You know, you’re the only one who calls me that,” he said.

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