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"Bed?" Faith tenderly inquired as she rubbed the nape of Shawn's neck.
"Bed," Shawn nodded in agreement as she took Faith by the hand and helped the
brunette to her feet. "Night Connor."
"Have fun," he called out as the couple exited the bar.
"I'm exhausted," Faith yawned as she opened the door to their room. "I can
only imagine how you feel."
"I'm wiped," Shawn confessed looking about the room for their unwanted
roommate. "Good we are alone. Forgive me if I fall asleep on you."
"No worries," Faith sighed shrugging out of her coat. "I may just steal this
from wardrobe. The sun is almost up and I am planning on sleeping the day
away."
"I like the way you think," Shawn murmured in agreement nestling her face
against Faith's chest.
"Just wait to see what I have planned for when our batteries are charged,"
Faith promised in a husky tone.
"Hmm," Shawn murmured happily. "I can't wait."
"Is it just me or is Connor being a bit of an asshole this trip?" Faith
questioned as they climbed into bed.
"No, he's being a jerk," Shawn confirmed sighing happily as she nestled her
body against Faith's warm, inviting flesh. "He misses having you as a
playmate. I think he blames me."
"Why would he blame you?" Faith questioned as her hands busied themselves by
rubbing Shawn's back in a soothing manner.
"Because he has always had a bit of a crush on you," Shawn explained.
"Get out," Faith argued. "He knows that I only play with parts that match not
fit."
"True, but before this trip he could at least cling to the hope that he still
had a shot," Shawn explained. "And in the meantime, the two of you could at
least kick up your heels and chase girls together."
"Idiot," Faith murmured.
"Can't say that I blame him," Shawn sighed kissing Faith's shoulder. "You
can't help it if you are drop dead gorgeous."
"Are you getting fresh with me?" Faith gasped as Shawn's kisses began to drift
lower.
"Perhaps," the blonde whispered her body warming from the feel of Faith's
hands wrapping around her body.
"Sleep," Faith wearily suggested. "I really don't want to start something
neither of us is going to be able to finish," she cautioned her lover before
kissing her tenderly.
"Sleep," Shawn agreed after they exchanged a few more kisses.
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END OF THE ROAD
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
New York City, 1897
"Small, I have to be small," Willie silently whispered as he curled into the
corner by the stove. If his Uncle Henry couldn't see him then he would be
spared a beating. Willie worked long hours, despite his youth, in a factory
not far from the tenement where he lived with the man whom he had been told
was his uncle. He was never certain that the man was truly his uncle, then
again he had been shuffled around his entire life unaware of his age and never
knowing his parents. Now all he wanted was to be invisible. Each night he hid
in the kitchen seeking a place where he could sleep unnoticed, and his
battered body could rest. Loud footsteps alerted him that Henry was coming. He
climbed into the cupboard. He was happy that he was so small and could fit in
the tiny space. The footsteps grew louder; Henry's grumbling alerted the boy
that the large man had been drinking. Willie slipped deeper inside the cabinet
praying to be small.  Small, small,' his mind fearfully repeated over and over
again until he was pressed up against the back wall of the cupboard.
Henry failed to realize that the boy was buried in the back of the cabinet and
Willie slept. It was all he desired, to sleep without enduring a beating or
worse. He stayed tucked in the back of the dingy cabinet shivering night after
night until one night he stayed instead of leaving just before dawn to work at
the cannery, cutting his tiny fingers and burdening his frail body any
further. No one seemed to notice that the boy was missing. Willie slept
peacefully his body silently giving out.
Henry had moved on the apartment torn apart the boy's body discovered. These
events were unnoticed by Willie who stayed on simply seeking to be small and
find a warm space where he could sleep. For years no one noticed him as he hid
in the shadows. Everything changed for him the day the blonde lady came to
look at the apartment. He tried to hide, but she saw him and spoke to him.
He was afraid at first when she told him he didn't have to be small or need to
hide. He was startled and wary of the strange lady. He lurked in the shadows
as she moved her belongings into the very different looking home that he had
once feared returning to each evening. Shawn seemed to be nice, chatting away,
encouraging him to come out and play. Soon she had won him over, allowing him
to play, teaching him games, and all she asked was that he didn't enter the
bathroom or her bedroom when they were being used. He liked her, although at [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]