Chapter 54

‘ What do I do? ' I shocked, pacing in the living- space. ' Where the fuck would she go? ' A earthquake ran throughout. The window had been open. What if she'd gone along out last night and gotten caught? Or what if she was wedged and had n't been suitable to make it back before daylight? corrosiveness waxed up my throat. Making sure I had my keys portmanteau and phone, I left. The sunshine was hanging like a race- orange in the sky. The shadows had bedimmed to a deep purple. The air was still, the smell of day- old cheese hanging like a stagnant gauze over the megacity. I stopped after celerity- walking down the main high- road for twenty twinkles. It had abruptly smash me that I had no eidolon where Khalifa would vanish to, in Brighton. We had n't bandied where she went along to during the time between my going to pad and waking up. I'd allowed her some measure of sequestration. ‘ You idiot! ' I sniggered at myself as I forced myself down a side- road towards the walk. Turning a