Forbidden Flesh by Carmen Rosales EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Carmen Rosales
- Language: English
- Genre: Gothic Romance
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MELODY
THE SUN IS SETTING by the time I pull up to the dingy old trailer I’m
renting two miles from Kenyan University.
After the second day of sleeping in my car, I was driving down this road
looking for a cheap spot to eat when I saw the old trailer with a FOR RENT
sign stuck on the grimy window. I pulled off the road when I saw Mr. Colby
outside. I struck a deal for four hundred bucks a month, as is.
I turn right on the graveled drive and spot Mr. Colby working on his old
car. His stringy hair barely covers the bald spot on his head. His gray beard
is long. You can tell he doesn’t like it, but he doesn’t bother cutting it.
Brock Colby looks about to get ready for his sixty-ninth winter. He
glances around the raised hood of the old car. His black pants are held up
with suspenders, and his old tank top has seen better days with a stain of
sweat that looks like the Panama Canal down the center.
“Melody,” he says, right before the scream of shutting my driver’s side
door, followed by a loud clang.
“Mr. Colby,” I say, greeting him with a smile.
He has grease up to his elbows from trying to fix the old Plymouth on
his cracked driveway. The burnt grass fills the veined empty spaces. It looks
like he’s been working on the car since I was nine from the chipped paint on
the hood.
“How was work?” he asks.
I look down at my red-and-white diner uniform and then meet his
brown eyes. He’s squinting at me from the sun’s glare.
“Besides smelling like a cheeseburger, I’d say it’s as good as any day.”
He hooks his thumbs in his suspenders with a line of dirt under the bed
of his fingernails.
“I could get you a job at the hardware store if you’re interested,” he
says, looking down at the ground like he’s thinking. “Maybe knock a
hundred bucks off the rent on the trailer since you fixed it up and all.”
“Oh, I don’t know,” I stammer.
A hundred bucks sounds like a great offer. Since the fall semester
started, most of the customers at the diner are from Ohio State. I’m not
making enough tips, thanks to the assholes on the football team.
I get discounted meals at the diner, which helps me cover meals, but I’m
making less and less each day.
Mr. Colby smiles, his yellow teeth making an appearance, but there is a
gleam behind his eyes like he’s evaluating my decision. I can’t be
ungrateful and refuse his offer. It would be rude. Maybe he’s full of shit and
can’t get me a job at the hardware store and thinks he can.
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