The Mediator by Erica Pensini - HTML preview

Chapter 14

Once I stop talking the room fills with a sizzling silence.

“Everyone thought Steven Mayer’s death was an accident”, John says after a while

“Now I’ve told you how he really died”, I say

“You have not yet told me everything”, John objects

“What else do you want to know?”, I ask

“I want to know about Leslie Carson. What did she do after Steven committed suicide?”, he says

I look at John, tilting my head with a smile.

“But…”, I say with an ironically reprimanding pout, pointing at my book

John shakes his head no.

“The answer is in there”, I insist

“I was ordering a coffee to kill some time before my flight home when I met her again”, John starts, reciting from my book

I look at him, surprised he knows my lines by heart.

I want him to continue, but he stops, looking at me with an expression I cannot decipher.

“Can you go on, please?”, I find myself almost begging

“Why do you want me to tell your story?”, John wants to know

I don’t have an answer so I look at John, silent.

John bugs his eyes and smiles, handing me the book.

“Will you read to me, Iris?”, he says

I nod, and here is how the story goes.