Masters & Lovers Box Set Three
Chapter 49
Klempner - Twenty-Six Years Ago
She’s gone.
What now?
I stare out of the window of the apartment I bought for her, overlooking the harbour with its yachts and pleasure boats, ice-cream kiosks and artsy-craftsy shops. Sunshine glints outside on the water, gleams on fresh paint, blue and white, and on polished timber decks, then spills into the room. But there’s no warmth in it. Tugging my jacket around me, I hiss as pain stabs through my hand. Gashed flesh swollen and heated, seeps blood.
I should dress it…
…
Later…
I thought I had it.
I thought I had her.
I really did.
…
…
It’s so cold.
Walking through to the kitchen, I limp a little where my ankle twisted as I fell…
Would he really have run me down?
… then clumsily, working with one hand, I make coffee, splashing in a hefty measure of whiskey, then more until the cup teeters on overflowing.
You had me fooled, Larry. You really had me going. When you left, I was coming to see you… and then I saw them…
Returning with the drink to stand in the scant heat of the sunshine, I watch holidaymakers and tourists going about their moronic activities. Hot alcohol and caffeine sear a trail down my throat but still, there’s no warmth inside me.
She was coming to see me…
Coming to say she’d be with me…
Shivering, I drain the dregs.
Bitter as bile, churning and toxic, regret wells up inside me…
Enfolds me in its harsh embrace…
Overwhelms me…
There’s not enough air. Pain draws a band around my chest, tighter; ever tighter.
Dropping to my knees, I cover my face.
Hide from the world…
Is this all there is?
Hide from myself…
She ran to him…
me and to
Conners...
flickers; a flame fanning up to burn hot and bright and
… Lighting the darkness.
can breathe again. Inhaling, I draw one deep lungful after another, sucking at the air until my head clears and I'm able to stand. Using the window ledge to support myself, I pull myself upright again, plunging hands white with cold into my
brushes against them;
?
and swollen, I pull out the strange object. A butterfly dangles from its chain, twinkling silver as it spins
How…?
?
?
fingers grazing her skin… snagging on something which strains and
fingers and palm. Digging into
She was wearing it.
His gift…
boils inside me. Fists clenching, the pain lances through me,
Conners.
*****
James
his hand. Richard and Beth sit in silence, listening
do we tell
pocket. “I’m going to drive across there tomorrow and see what the area looks like. I don’t want a repeat of last time; going all the way there to find nothing but a car
planning on knocking on the
that wouldn’t be right. But I want to check at least that there’s a
“Fair enough.”
*****
Michael
A classic city edge…
careful hand, printed capitals, it is quite clear. This is
of movement, but paintwork is fresh and clean; floral curtains drape inside, the door-knocker is of
I can
*****
Charlotte
with me. Michael leans back against the vehicle, arms folded, legs crossed at the
at a downstairs window; movement inside, shapes silhouetted
move. My feet drag. My
Enough already…
the knocker in one hand, I rap smartly on the door. It rat-tats, echoing through the
What if she answers?
Will I recognise her?
know who I
clunk of a bolt being drawn back, then
thirty. He’s good-looking in an unremarkable way, but quite
was looking for Michelle? Is she
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