Masters & Lovers Box Set Three
Chapter 14
The bar is seamy, dark and disreputable.
Just the place for a grieving man…
James has had two beers with chasers already and looks to be just hitting his stride.
Wonder what he’s eaten today…?
I flag the barman for a bowl of nuts, trying to be subtle about pushing it James’ way. He fails to notice and simply swills down half a beer in two swallows.
“I suppose I never really believed I’d lost her entirely…” he’s saying. “But the way she looked at me when I tried to tell her that her mother had lied.”
I put my glass down, trying not to touch the surface of the suspiciously sticky counter. “Who wants to believe bad things about their mother?”
His nod is microscopic. The tilt of his head as he knocks back another malt chaser is large.
“What did Georgie want?”
We’ve only been here twenty minutes, and he’s already slurring. “Money for her mother.”
“Pretty manipulative on Marlene’s part,” I comment. “You'd think she would have come to ask herself. Rather than use her own daughter that way.”
James flags the barman for another round…
Do I want to keep up with this?
…. What are friends for…?
We’re both going to pay in the morning…
“She did.”
“What?”
“She did. Marlene came to see me, at the office.”
I try to inject calm into my voice. “When was that?”
“Some weeks ago.”
“And you didn't say anything?”
“I didn't think it was your problem.”
“It becomes my problem when my wife is crying.”
whispers and knocks back his shot, slamming the glass down
on a burn
to drink himself
*****
and, I
or is it
… bars later…
body. My legs are definitely drunk and so
James just ordered.
“No prubl’m,” I mutter.
we going to
over the bar, “Can you
tap on my shoulder. I turn, one
the fuck are you doing
eases a hand under my elbow. “Mr Haswell's orders. To get you both back
good
*****
James
Christ Almighty…
My head….
sit up, then flop back as my stomach rebels and the bed tilts
Where am I?
I examine
Clean white linen…
A clean white ceiling…
in case it detaches from
beside me are a plastic tumbler, a
mine, is Michael, lying on his back,
Orange juice...
Drink of the gods...
from
I'm naked...
When did I undress?
me from the bed, I reach for the juice, gulping down a glass and then another. My throat blesses me
instead, Michael stirs, raising a trembling
“Oh, fuck...”
face with
them
my way then stopping in mid-movement. Moving with exaggerated caution, he sits up. As he pours a glass of juice, he looks across. “Next time
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