Forbidden
“This wasn’t where he’d planned to come. When he left the park, he had every intention of racing back to town and confronting Lenny in his office—demanding answers about every suspicion he’d been swallowing for ten years. But his mind kept going back to the scene in the school, with Rachel on the ground, stunned, and Claire the warrior, holding the attacker at bay. And then … and then, her backing down and lowering her eyes.
Why?
He knocked and it sounded so muted in relation to the screaming of... questions in his mind. He wanted to pound, to kick, to yell.
But the tiny knock produced results. He heard soft footsteps inside and then the door opened. Rachel was indeed in pajamas, pale yellow flannel with tiny ducks. The color made her skin glow with an inner light. The hand not on the door held a bag of generic frozen peas to the side of her face. She seemed surprised to see him. But not nearly as surprised as he was to be here.
“Got a minute?”
She shrugged. “Sure. Do you?”MoreLess
Why?
He knocked and it sounded so muted in relation to the screaming of... questions in his mind. He wanted to pound, to kick, to yell.
But the tiny knock produced results. He heard soft footsteps inside and then the door opened. Rachel was indeed in pajamas, pale yellow flannel with tiny ducks. The color made her skin glow with an inner light. The hand not on the door held a bag of generic frozen peas to the side of her face. She seemed surprised to see him. But not nearly as surprised as he was to be here.
“Got a minute?”
She shrugged. “Sure. Do you?”MoreLess
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