True Colors
“Morning humidity thickened the air, and pine needles crunched underfoot as he strolled through her backyard and the lightly forested area behind her house. It would take him about five minutes to walk back to the Ford Fusion parked at Publix.
He should have felt rejuvenated, should have had a damn skip in his step after so long with Sally. But melancholy hooked its claws in him and wouldn’t let go. While Sally had been fun, beautiful in that pitiful, begging kind of way he loved, she was no Ale...x Trudeau.
He thought again about Alex’s desperate plea for Brian to run. The way she’d said it, screamed it, had sounded so familiar, and the echoes of her shout dovetailed with his own memories of that moment when he’d frantically yelled those same words. Alex’s body had convulsed almost immediately, as a seizure had claimed her, and yet the jolting movements had reminded him of his own violent loss of control after contact with the business end of the dickhead’s stun gun.
What happened to her Brian?MoreLess
He should have felt rejuvenated, should have had a damn skip in his step after so long with Sally. But melancholy hooked its claws in him and wouldn’t let go. While Sally had been fun, beautiful in that pitiful, begging kind of way he loved, she was no Ale...x Trudeau.
He thought again about Alex’s desperate plea for Brian to run. The way she’d said it, screamed it, had sounded so familiar, and the echoes of her shout dovetailed with his own memories of that moment when he’d frantically yelled those same words. Alex’s body had convulsed almost immediately, as a seizure had claimed her, and yet the jolting movements had reminded him of his own violent loss of control after contact with the business end of the dickhead’s stun gun.
What happened to her Brian?MoreLess
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