Emerly you’ll join him for lunch?’ ‘Yes’, I replied, ‘And thanks for everything Vonne.’ She continued to smile, then nodded her head and c...losed the double doors behind her as she left. I turned to examine my new surroundings at length. The sitting room was, indeed, elegant, luxurious, and comfortable. In fact the three rooms seemed to be furnished with a flair toward feminine tastes. The drapes were plush velvet with tasseled fringe a la Scarlet O’Hara, the furniture was oversized and. I pulled my bathing suit up and then that’s when I noticed it. The fucking door was half open the whole time. Fear and paranoia took over my body as I opened the door to leave. And there she was. Directly across the hallway in my guest room sitting back on my bed… Aunt April. [END Chapter 4] Chapter 5 Consumed with fear and anxiety, I quickly stepped out the bathroom into the hall. Closing the door behind me, I hoped Nicole wouldn’t notice her mother. How long had she been there? Why. " So did I, madam, and I am excessively disappointed. The Carnatic, its repairs being completed, left Hong Kong twelve hours before the stated time, without any notice being given; and we must now wait a week for another steamer."As he said "a week" Fix felt his heart leap for joy. Fogg detained at Hong Kong for a week! There would be time for the warrant to arrive, and fortune at last favoured the representative of the law. His horror may be imagined when he heard Mr. Fogg say, in his placid. "I wondered if I could go home, get back in bed, and pull the covers over my head until Monday.It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon for the middle of November. I'd spent the morning working on a term paper for history. It wasn't due until the end of January, but why wait for the last minute? I'd written a great conclusion; now I just had to find enough facts to support it.I didn't even glance at Tami's house. I knew she, her mother, and her grandmother were off shopping. That was one of the.