FUTURE STORYTELLER
(A GUILTY LOOK IF I EVER SAW ONE!)
From SKYSHOOTER:
Hoot awoke at 4:00 AM just as he had every other morning
of his life for as long as he could remember, always reasoning to himself that
it was 4:00 AM somewhere in the world twenty-four times a day and the best he could
do was get his own personal ass out of bed on time to take care of his own shift;
let others worry about the rest. This morning he woke up to discover he was
lying next to Jesse in what he presumed was her bed at the resort. He had only
the dimmest memory of tumbling into a bed that he couldn’t even be certain was
this same bed, Jesse all over him, and he all over her. Never a good thing,
waking-up in a place you don’t recognize, he told himself as if needing a
cryptic reminder of the obvious.
It was warm, and a ceiling fan was stirring a breath
of air. He reached above his aching head to move aside a heavy window curtain
and peek outside. Dawn had yet to break, but the horizon was starting to take
on a hint of color, the sky above clear and starry, the nearly-full moon hung low in the
west like a beacon reflecting off wave tops.
He remembered it was around 2:00 AM when he met Jesse at the clubhouse last
night, so wherever he was, he figured he either hadn’t been here very long or
entirely too damned long. Probably both.
Cannot wait for this book.
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