Cold Bath Lane by Lorna Dounaeva

Author:Lorna Dounaeva [Dounaeva, Lorna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2019-01-25T00:00:00+00:00

Dad got ugly drunk again, soon after that. I had crushed the sleeping pills into his beer as usual, but they weren’t having the desired effect. Perhaps I needed to up his dose.

“It’s all Thatcher’s fault,’ he said, spitting on the floor. It irritated me, the way he couldn’t take responsibility for his own actions.

“What is, Dad? You not being able to say sorry?” I felt my heart pump in my chest as I confronted him. “If it weren’t for you, Uncle Richard would still be around. I wish you’d gone instead of him.”

I knew I’d gone too far, but I couldn’t stop myself.

Dad rose up to twice his height. He was three sheets to the wind and spoiling for a fight.

“Oh, you’d like that, wouldn’t you, Mary Jane?”

“I ain’t Mary frigging Jane,” I said, for the millionth time. “I wish you’d stop mixing me up with her. It’s downright creepy.”

“Don’t lie to me!” he yelled. “You’re always feeding me porkies! Don’t think I don’t know what you get up to, whenever you think my back is turned.”

He lurched at me and grabbed me by the hair.

“Hey, get off me!”

I flailed wildly as he dragged me off the sofa.

I glanced around in desperation. Sam and Alicia must have heard me. Hell, the whole of Cold Bath Lane must have heard me, but no one came to my defence. I kicked out at him as he ripped chucks of hair out of my skull. I screamed louder than I had ever screamed before.

“Get off me! What did I ever do to you? You crazy bastard!”

His only reply was to slam my head against the wall. And still he did not let go. I blinked, disorientated. I was seeing stars in front of my face.

“I know what you did, Mary Jane!”

“Dad, stop!”

The words frothed on my lips as I hurtled through the window and plummeted down into the street below. I lay stunned in the darkness, as the glass rained down on me.

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