Apocalypse by Paul Lalonde

Author:Paul Lalonde
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2010-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

THERE ISN’T ANY RIGHT ANSWER TO THIS,” Bronson Pearl had told Bill Farkas the last time they had lunch together. It had been weeks earlier, before Bronson began shuttling between the Middle East and New York. “Those of us who make careers in broadcast journalism have a thirst for knowledge and we’re paid to be nosy, but it’s more than that. Even the worst, most biased newspeople, still seek the truth. It’s just that some of them don’t know it when they see it.”

“I can relate to that,” replied Bill. “But it’s not the business. It’s . . . Well, Lainie wants me to leave WNN. We’ve been trying to start a family, and though she hasn’t said anything yet, I think she’s pregnant.”

“Do you want to leave broadcasting?” Bronson had asked.

“Not now,” replied Bill. “Not when there are so many stories breaking and I’m getting a chance to be in the middle of them. It’s all I ever wanted growing up. I’m not ready to make the change.”

“Is your job worth your marriage?” Bronson probed. “What if Lainie wanted you to choose between the network and her?”

“She wouldn’t do that,” Bill insisted. “She’s never had any illusions about the pressures of the industry. She knows she comes first.”

Bronson sighed. “You have no idea how I envy your being able to go home to the woman you love each night.” He reached out and touched his friend’s arm. “If you’re going to be a father, you need to be home.”

Bill had agreed with Bronson. But he also knew he wasn’t going to quit his job with the network. Lainie had wanted him to stay at home. “Call in sick,” she urged. “Take a personal day.”

“To do what?” he had asked, putting on his necktie.

“Take a walk in the park,” she had pleaded. “Go to a coffee shop for lunch and just talk. Make love to me. I don’t care what we do as long as we do it together.”

“We can be together this weekend,” he replied.

“If there is a weekend,” Lainie had said ominously.

The remark had made him pause. “You’re really scared about all this, aren’t you, Lainie?” he had asked, not really wanting to hear her answer.

“Of course I am,” she replied. “Neither one of us is thirty yet. We’re just at the start of our adult lives. I don’t want to miss the joy of growing old together.”

He reached out to hug her. “We’ve been through this kind of brinkmanship before,” he reminded her. “And nothing’s ever happened. Millions were supposed to die from biological warfare during Desert Storm. The North Koreans were supposed to overrun the South and start a nuclear war.”

Lainie had been adamant. “This is different. It’s not a time for a husband and wife to be separated.”

He had kissed her then, tender, lovingly. He loved her and she loved him. Nothing could ever change that.

Later that day Bill was scheduled to go live with man-on-the-street interviews when suddenly it was as if the world had gone mad.

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