Unexpectedly, Milo by Matthew Dicks

Author:Matthew Dicks
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Contemporary
ISBN: 0307592308
Publisher: Broadway
Published: 2010-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

He wondered if she might be happier if he never returned the camera to her, but then he thought about how it might feel to know that the record of one’s most private thoughts were somewhere in the world, ready to be posted online at any time. Milo reasoned that knowing that one person had viewed the tapes was better than worrying that the world might someday have access to the recordings. Even though he would not be able to explain his ability to identify and locate her without admitting to watching the tapes, Milo could at least assure Freckles that he had been the only one to see them and that no copies had been made.

But that was a conversation that would require some planning.

What Milo did decide in that moment outside her home was not to watch the rest of the tapes. When he finally returned them to Freckles, he wanted to be able to assure her that he watched the recordings only until she mentioned her full name. Though this unfortunately occurred during the telling of her darkest secret, he could at least present himself as an honorable man.

Fooling himself into believing that curiosity trumped fear, Milo decided to return to Cynthia Drive the next morning, early enough to follow Freckles to work and wherever else she may go. He told himself that by filling in the blanks of her life, he could better prepare for their eventual encounter. In truth, he was simply delaying the inevitable, afraid to face a woman whom he liked and admired but who would probably end up hating him.

The following morning, Milo had followed Freckles to the neighboring town of New Britain, to an ugly rectangular box of brick and glass, where she apparently spent her days working. Horse training was not Freckles’s only gig, or at least it wasn’t anymore. Knowing that she had arrived home around five o’clock the previous day, Milo met with two clients during the morning and early afternoon (including Arthur Friedman) before returning to New Britain at four to resume his tail. Freckles left work at four forty-five and had made her way straight to Mill Pond Park, where she had joined a group of a dozen friends and a small horde of children on the far field.

As Milo watched her across the open field, he thought about the possibility that his entire future with Freckles might comprise a single, uncomfortable three-minute encounter. Despite his effort to do the right thing, it was likely that after returning the camera and tapes, he would never see Freckles again. Though he knew it made no sense, it still broke his heart to think of such a future.

He closed the distance between them to less than fifty feet and then remained in place, continuing to watch. This is when one of the final pieces of the puzzle, the explanation of Freckles’s morning fight, finally fell into place.

A middle-aged Indian man in wire-rimmed glasses was standing about twenty feet from Freckles, grappling a spool of kite string.

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