Sound of a Voice That is Still by PG Forte

Author:PG Forte [Forte, PG]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781880370483
Publisher: Chapultepec Press

“So how do you think the dog got in there in the first place?” Ryan asked, much later that night, as they sat on the porch drinking tea. “I mean, it couldn’t have happened while we were away, ‘cause the door was closed when we got back.”

Siobhan thought about it for a moment. “I guess he must have followed me in this morning, and I didn’t notice.” Just like she hadn’t noticed that the cage hadn’t been latched properly. Just like all the other things she hadn’t noticed over the years, until it was too late.

The night had turned surprisingly sultry; damp and warm, filled with the croaking serenade of tree frogs. She’d walked his dog for him, and fixed them something to eat, and gotten him some fresh clothes to wear--the same clothes he’d changed out of that first night, after she’d knocked him off his feet down at the beach. He’d looked at her strangely when she’d first given them to him. Probably wondering why, in three weeks time, she hadn’t ever once mentioned that she still had them.

“Have you been sleeping in this, or something?” he’d asked, holding the conspicuously wrinkled T-shirt to his nose for a moment.

Siobhan shrugged, feeling suddenly embarrassed. “Maybe. Just these last couple of nights.”

Just since they’d become lovers, and things started going so horribly wrong. Just to remind herself why it was she was willing to court even more disaster.

“I like that,” he murmured, as he pulled her close for another kiss. She believed him, too. She could hear the satisfaction in his voice.

And, now that she was feeling vulnerable herself, she could kind of see his point about it: the feeling sucked. Especially when she’d found herself clinging to him a little longer and more tightly than usual. Especially when she had no idea if he felt the same way about her.

“It’s a pretty big coincidence, when you think about it,” he said now, his eyes observing her above the rim of his mug.

She frowned. “What is?” His tone was making her uneasy. She could almost hear the wheels turning in his head, and this was one subject she definitely did not want him thinking too hard about.

“The timing. The dog just happening to get stuck in there on the same day the bobcat’s cage was left unlatched. It’s kind of weird.”

“Mm,” she answered, vaguely; thinking that it wasn’t all that surprising, really. That’s exactly how those things did happen. How they’d always, always happened. In the worst possible way. And at the worst possible times.

She thought, briefly, about telling him that. Thought about telling him about some of the other incidents that had occurred in her past. She even thought about telling him that he’d better get used to it. That things like this were likely to keep right on happening, for as long as the two of them were together.

But she wasn’t sure he’d want to keep seeing her if he knew how dangerous she could be, and she wasn’t yet ready to give him up.

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