Creature of the Night by Kate Thompson

Author:Kate Thompson [Thompson, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 9781407043784
Publisher: RHCP
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

30

I had to wait for an hour in Limerick and it was after eleven when I got off the bus in Ennis. There was no way I was going to thumb home in the dark. Our village was twenty kilometres out the road towards the coast and you wouldn't know what kind of redneck weirdos you'd get out there. And there was no way I was going to walk it, either.

I went into the centre of town and opened a taxi door. I told him where I was going and asked him how much. He just looked at me and said nothing. I turned on the charm.

'It's OK. My ma was supposed to collect me but the car broke down. She said to get a taxi and she'll pay you when we get there.'

'All right,' he said. 'But it'll cost forty euro.'

'That's OK,' I said, and jumped in.

When we got to the house the taxi driver followed me in. My ma heard us and came out of the sitting room.

'You owe him forty quid,' I told her, and ran up to my room, and listened to the argument from there. She didn't have forty euro. She never gave me permission. He didn't care if it was all she had for the week. He wasn't taking No for an answer.

I heard her spill out the contents of her purse on the table and, for some reason, the sound gave me a little pain under my ribs.

'There's fifteen,' she said. Coins slid and chinked. 'Twenty. Twenty-three. That's all I've got. I'll have to give you the rest some other time.'

'I'll be back for it,' he said.

The front door slammed and then the taxi door, and the angry motor revved into the distance. I thought my ma would come up and I braced myself for a row.

But she didn't. I had to listen to her crying instead. I hated her for it. She did it on purpose, I knew, just to get at me.

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