Angel by Kate Mitchell
Author:Kate Mitchell [Mitchell, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781912048748
Publisher: Now Published
Published: 2019-12-12T22:00:00+00:00
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Every good habit begins the moment one thinks of it. After a quick shower, dressing and then applying the camouflage to my face, I went to wake up young J.J. He was never asleep; he lays there waiting. Such a strange little boy. After searching through the little man's wardrobe and chest of drawers, he has everything. One criticism which cannot be made against Angel, she does not neglect him on that score.
We were now the first at breakfast for Hattie like Angel, rarely surfaced before midday but this morning, Angel was sitting at the table waiting for me.
Since my trip to the prison, Angel regarded me silently, brooding on thoughts which she kept to herself. I became aware of her interest in me when turning my head I saw her quite often turn away. Though every now and again, she would catch my eyes and keep my gaze for a couple of seconds. There was something very definite going on in her mind, and it was to do with me. And here she was sitting and waiting at the breakfast table.
Seeing her had surprised me. I quickly checked my watch to make certain of the time and then I smiled at her.
‘I didn't expect to see you up this early, Angel.’ I placed J.J in his highchair.
‘No, I couldn't sleep,’ she was gently chewing her bottom lip while her voice sounded far away, vague, like in a daydream.
‘Is there anything bothering you?’ I asked as I adjusted J.J’s clean white bib about his neck.
‘No, not really,’ the tone of her voice was distant. ‘I was just thinking,’ she said as if she was talking to herself.
‘You know,’ I began thoughtfully taking up J. J’s dish of porridge. I had cut his ration down. ‘If you have a problem, you can always talk to me.’
‘Yes,’ her eyes went straight to mine, ‘I'm sure I can.’ The distant and vague, hundred miles away voice fell away as if the lazy trap had caught its mouse.
Perhaps, in the beginning, I had underestimated Angel, but now after spending several weeks in her house watching and listening to her, my ideas about her had changed. I was beginning to see her for what she was. She presented an image that at first, I poked at as being silly and not to be taken seriously. But her future had become uncertain, and from my own experience, I knew the disillusionment of confidence. In the beginning, I thought Angel had found that magic elixir of power. Her confidence had overwhelmed me and put me into the shadows. But it was an act, and I had seen evidence of it cracking when she passed my bedroom in the early hours of the morning.
Awakening one morning at the dawn of the day, and with those idle thoughts one has at that time in the morning, I lay there listening and wondering yet again about my life and what I was doing here. I had never thought for one
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