The Book of Blood Volume 4 Revelations Part 4
What about your Papa?" "He'll be dead drunk, by now. It's the same routine every night. Just take it quietly. He'll never know." Earl wasn't very happy with this game plan. It was more than his job was worth to be found in bed with Laura May. He was a married man, even if he hadn't seen Barbara in three months. Laura May sensed his trepidation. "Don't come if you don't want to," she said. "It's not that," he replied. As he looked down at her she licked her lips. It was a completely unconscious motion, he felt sure, but it was enough to decide him. In a sense, though he couldn't know it at the time, all that lay ahead-the farce, the bloodletting, the inevitable tragedy-pivoted on Laura May wetting her lower lip with such casual sensuality. "Ah shit," he said, "you're too much, you know that?" He bent to her and kissed her again, while somewhere over toward Skellytown the clouds gave out a loud roll…
