Chapter 9

Down on my knees, as I finally summoned the courage or else succumbed to stupidity, I decided to peer out toward the yard. Overly conscious of my posterior, now in the same position that Ewan’s had been moments ago, my genitalia warmed and pulsed with a force I tried to ignore. I could not in the end and I quickly became aroused.

I pulled back the wallpaper and shivered involuntarily. In all of the time I’d had access, no human had ever been there to be seen. In fact, the only human I had seen at all, as close as I now saw two, had been my sister, Georgia. My vision was so distinct. Through an opening so narrow, I was surprised by the clarity of Georgia’s behind and Ewan’s…front.

“You should not be here, Mr. Parish, because you agreed not to be. Are you not a man of your word?” Georgia asked him.

“I am checking the edifice, Miss Dupree. It is necessary to know exactly what I will encounter when time comes to attach the new structure to the old.”