Strangers
“Awake much of the time, my stomach upset from the tasteless meal I’d forced down to still the hunger rumblings on the way back to the motel; restless and dream-ridden when I did sleep. Come morning I felt logy and on edge. A long, hot-cold-hot shower took away most of the sluggish feeling but not the tight-drawn edginess. Wednesday’s weather, mostly cloudy and chilly, and the bland look of Mineral Springs by daylight, did nothing to improve my mood. And the extended waiting period from dawn unt...il business hours began and I could talk to Sam Parfrey made it worse.
I killed an hour in a nearby coffee shop, where three cups of strong black coffee and an English muffin upset my stomach again. I hoped nobody gave me any crap today; the mood I was in, I was liable to give it right back and that was no way to begin a ticklish investigation in an already hostile environment.
The address on Parfrey’s card was 311 Juniper Street. For once I was grateful that Kerry and Tamara had talked me into installing a GPS in the car; I’d programmed it for Mineral Springs on arrival, and it directed me to 311 Juniper at just past nine o’clock.MoreLess
I killed an hour in a nearby coffee shop, where three cups of strong black coffee and an English muffin upset my stomach again. I hoped nobody gave me any crap today; the mood I was in, I was liable to give it right back and that was no way to begin a ticklish investigation in an already hostile environment.
The address on Parfrey’s card was 311 Juniper Street. For once I was grateful that Kerry and Tamara had talked me into installing a GPS in the car; I’d programmed it for Mineral Springs on arrival, and it directed me to 311 Juniper at just past nine o’clock.MoreLess
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