Wake Up to Murder (2013)
“I was still panting from running so hard. It was like every dream I’d dreamed for a year. Someone was chasing me, while I stood anchored to one spot until fear wrenched me loose and I ran.
It was dark in the room but enough light leaked under a fluttering shade to give me an outline to a bed, a dresser, and two chairs. I was, obviously, in a hotel room. Relief drenched my body. I looked at the luminous dial of my watch. The dial looked twice its normal size but I couldn’t distinguish the length... of the hands. It was either twenty-five minutes after twelve or five o’clock. What morning?
The knocking on the door that had awakened me continued. Not loud, but insistent. Thump — thump thump. Like the beating of a heart.
My mouth was dry. My head ached. I wished I could remember more about it. I hoped I’d had a good time. I hoped I hadn’t spent too much of the severance pay that Kendall had given me. I was afraid to get up and look in my pants pocket.
I felt on the table beside the bed for cigarettes and matches.MoreLess
It was dark in the room but enough light leaked under a fluttering shade to give me an outline to a bed, a dresser, and two chairs. I was, obviously, in a hotel room. Relief drenched my body. I looked at the luminous dial of my watch. The dial looked twice its normal size but I couldn’t distinguish the length... of the hands. It was either twenty-five minutes after twelve or five o’clock. What morning?
The knocking on the door that had awakened me continued. Not loud, but insistent. Thump — thump thump. Like the beating of a heart.
My mouth was dry. My head ached. I wished I could remember more about it. I hoped I’d had a good time. I hoped I hadn’t spent too much of the severance pay that Kendall had given me. I was afraid to get up and look in my pants pocket.
I felt on the table beside the bed for cigarettes and matches.MoreLess
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