I Was Waiting for You (2010)
“Cornelia paid the cab driver the fare from JFK and made her way up the steps to her building, swinging her tote bag behind her.
Inside her apartment, the message light on her phone was flashing. She ignored it. Slipped out of her coat. Glanced at her watch. Walked to her bedroom where she upended the contents of her bag onto the bed. She’d travelled light. She’d acquired essential toiletries in Paris at a corner pharmacieand left them behind at her first hotel. There was just a change of underwear and a couple of skirts, a spare T-shirt and the outfit she’d worn at the club. She had briefly thought of jettisoning the latter back in France, but since she’d actually not been seen wearing it that much, it would have been a bit of a waste, she reckoned.
For a brief moment, her mind wandered back to the moment of execution yesterday evening, the lightning flash of recognition on the man’s face as he looked up from the small tattoo in her crotch to the weapon in her hand. The muffled sound ...of the shot and the eyes of the young Italian woman as she uncomprehendingly watched the scene unfold.MoreLess
Inside her apartment, the message light on her phone was flashing. She ignored it. Slipped out of her coat. Glanced at her watch. Walked to her bedroom where she upended the contents of her bag onto the bed. She’d travelled light. She’d acquired essential toiletries in Paris at a corner pharmacieand left them behind at her first hotel. There was just a change of underwear and a couple of skirts, a spare T-shirt and the outfit she’d worn at the club. She had briefly thought of jettisoning the latter back in France, but since she’d actually not been seen wearing it that much, it would have been a bit of a waste, she reckoned.
For a brief moment, her mind wandered back to the moment of execution yesterday evening, the lightning flash of recognition on the man’s face as he looked up from the small tattoo in her crotch to the weapon in her hand. The muffled sound ...of the shot and the eyes of the young Italian woman as she uncomprehendingly watched the scene unfold.MoreLess
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