Complete Nothing
“I walked into my house that night after eleven p.m., and the first thing I heard was laughter. I froze with my hand on the brass doorknob, and then closed the big creaky door as quietly and slowly as I possibly could. It clicked shut and I held my breath, then turned the lock silently.
Another laugh. Hephaestus’s laugh. And it was coming from his first-floor bedroom. Thick, black, unctuous dread filled my body from head to toe. The laugh sounded flirtatious. Possibly passionate.
If he was in th...ere with my mother, I was seriously going to set them on fire.
Clenching my fists, I crept through the parlor and down the hallway behind it on my toes, cursing the warped floorboards of this decades-old house. The door to Hephaestus’s room was closed. I leaned my ear toward it, and he laughed again.
“You have no idea how long I’ve been waiting to hear you say that,” he intoned, his voice throaty. “No idea.”
My lips pressed into a tight, angry line. I thought about walking right through the door so I could catch the two of them in flagrante, but then I imagined what that might look like and I paused.MoreLess
Another laugh. Hephaestus’s laugh. And it was coming from his first-floor bedroom. Thick, black, unctuous dread filled my body from head to toe. The laugh sounded flirtatious. Possibly passionate.
If he was in th...ere with my mother, I was seriously going to set them on fire.
Clenching my fists, I crept through the parlor and down the hallway behind it on my toes, cursing the warped floorboards of this decades-old house. The door to Hephaestus’s room was closed. I leaned my ear toward it, and he laughed again.
“You have no idea how long I’ve been waiting to hear you say that,” he intoned, his voice throaty. “No idea.”
My lips pressed into a tight, angry line. I thought about walking right through the door so I could catch the two of them in flagrante, but then I imagined what that might look like and I paused.MoreLess
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