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Norah lays her backpack onto the dining table and unloads her groceries,herself at home That’s because she is hoht be inhere all her life Imy time to study all the new furniture a bit more closely Some of it looks handmade, like the coffee table with little fawns and fox pups carved into the legs
Pulling the curtain back to reveal a sliding-glass, door, I flip the nearby light switch and peer out at the back porch There’s a se a ed into the corner I don’t knohat I expected to find once I got here, but it sure as hell wasn’t this
“Jesus,” I say to myself “When the hell did Jack do all this?”
“It wasn’t always this nice,” Norah says My ht behind me “He worked on it little by little, over the years” Turning to face her, I’reen eyes, a heart-shaped face My gaze centers on herMy cock aches
“Look,” I say, putting some distance between us, “I’m sorry about what happened on the way up here I was a dick Let’s just try to forget about it, okay?”
“Sure, okay” She folds her ar a shelf for those tits I have no business looking at now that I knoho she is Is to let in fresh air The downstairs bedroom is exactly where I remember it, across from the only bathroom
“Does the loft still have beds?” I ask Norah without looking at her
“A futon,” she says “It’s actually pretty comfy”
“Good I’ll take the loft You can sleep in here”
"Wow, gee, thanks so aze hardens “Can I ask you soo-ahead “My dad’s been bringing me to this cabin every summer since I was born Why did he leave it to you?”
“I honestly have no fucking idea” While I can remember a time when this place felt like a second hoive it back to her family, transfer it to Jack’sfor a dollar she never has to pay and be done with it
“Did you know -lost brothers or so?”
“We were friends,” I say, and thank god for that, considering what she tried to do to me in the truck, and the way I scared her
She see over my face “My dad said he and his best friend used to come here all the tiood friends, then why haven’t I met you before?”
“People grow up and apart” I debate whether or not I should go into detail Figures Jack would choose to leave the less-flattering facts about his youth out of the narrative But ulti her about her dad’s seedy past The o This cabin is probably the place she feels closest to hione