Chapter 20

True to her word, Angela returned by the weekend. She was both pleased and surprised to discover that Peter now occupied a room on the second floor.  I caught her in quiet conversation with him more than once before the weekend was through, but I made no effort to find out the topic of conversation.  I was fairly certain she was making him explain why he’d moved in and why he’d become my lover.  I would have said that it wasn’t any of her business, but, considering everything, I guess it was.

It took until Monday afternoon to get my phone working again. After checking all the lines in the house, the telephone company was forced to trace their lines.  They found the one feeding my office had been cut at a pole further up the block and then taped together so that it looked perfectly normal from a distance.  We suspected the zombie queen was behind it -that was Peter and my name for her- but we plead ignorance to the telephone company.&