In the Silence of Decay by Lisa Boyle EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Lisa Boyle
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LINDA
LINDA MORRIS LOOKED at herself in the small, rectangular mirror on
her car’s sun visor. A little bit of lipstick smudged her tooth. She tried to get
it off with her tongue, then with a napkin from the glove compartment. This
was the expensive stuff. She had picked it up on her last trip to
Albuquerque, two years ago now.
The car was turned off, the heat creeping in. In the back seat, Adriel
flipped the page of his comic book. She hadn’t meant to bring him, but her
babysitter canceled, and she still didn’t want to talk to Kay for any reason.
Linda thought about how lonely she’d been recently. After finding out what
she had about her own husband. The man who had held her when she was
at her lowest. The man she thought she knew. And then, her sister turned on
her, too. Linda wasn’t always great at communicating, she knew. She had
tried to tell Kay, but by then, Kay was too angry and wouldn’t listen.
Linda gazed at Adriel in the mirror. What she wouldn’t give to hear him
say “I love you” just once. Still, she knew he did love her. Their hearts felt
like two sides of the same coin sometimes, alternating beats. She could
anticipate his needs by now, knew what he was thinking and feeling. She
wondered if that would stop one day. If she would wake up one morning
when Adriel was sixteen and no longer know him at all. The thought made
her chest ache.
She closed the mirror and snapped the sun visor into place.
“You ready, my little cub? This shouldn’t take long.”
Adriel nodded without looking up. They both stepped from the car, and
he tucked the comic book under his arm so he could hold her hand.
Meeting at a gas station was a little strange, Linda thought, but she
guessed it was safe, because it was off the reservation, and of course, the
ridiculous teepee building made for an obvious landmark. She scanned the
parking lot. Her heart sped up. She didn’t know why. This was the right
thing to do. She was sure of it. Had already made peace with her decision.
Still, her skin crawled, and she thought about pulling Adriel back toward
the car. Speeding off along the highway. Forgetting about the whole thing
forever. But she didn’t. She stepped forward, stood up straighter, and gave
Adriel’s hand a small squeeze.
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MOLLY
MOLLY STARED at her father like he was a stranger. And to her, he was.
She couldn’t have remembered their first meeting on the tarmac, wrapped in
her mother’s arms. The way Sergeant Pinter had dropped his bag, buried his
face in his hands, and sobbed. That had been thirteen years ago, during the
thick of the Vietnam War. Molly had been a baby. She had no memories of
this man. Only stories.
He stepped closer. Close enough for her to see his green-brown eyes,
the three wrinkles that spread from the corners of each like tree roots, his
mouth that twitched a little on each side as if he wanted to smile but didn’t
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