Dead Kelly (The Afterblight Chronicles) by C. B. Harvey

Author:C. B. Harvey [Harvey, C. B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction
Publisher: Abaddon Books
Published: 2014-06-21T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

“WHAT THE FUCK are they doing?” he asked, pulling up his fly as he emerged from the bushes.

Lindsay grinned. “Probably playing sandcastles. Boys will be boys.”

McGuire snorted in agreement. He could see Trex, Ritzo and some of the others in the distance, swigging on beers, a few of the girls gyrating to some sort of heavy metal. Their bikes were parked on the rocky outcrop above.

“Forget ’em, Kelly. We don’t need ’em.”

McGuire nodded absently. He lowered himself back onto the sand and leaned on his elbows, gazing out toward the Bass Strait. Cobalt blue waves rose majestically before crashing into frothing nothingness on the shoreline.

“What is it, hon?” Lindsay shifted onto her side and gazed at him, head propped on her hand. Much of her auburn hair was tucked under a headscarf she’d fashioned from one of his bandanas, her emerald eyes hidden behind a huge pair of sunnies. Earlier he’d helped lather her porcelain skin with sun block. A person of her rarefied complexion couldn’t outstay her welcome on Bells Beach.

He stared at her, remembering the first time he’d seen her from astride his Harley. The gaggle of high school girls were headed for St Magdalene’s, chattering and giggling and throwing him and his gang furtive glances. All apart from her. She’d kept her head down, the faint blush on those pale cheeks only making her more alluring. It had been easy to begin an affair, harder to keep it secret from her friends and inevitably her family. He didn’t give a fuck about that, felt no guilt that he’d corrupted her. Her beauty would never survive the suburban marriage and motherhood her family had planned for her. No stiff of a man with a business suit and a dull job would cherish her like McGuire would. With him, her beauty would never fade, because he would make people see it.

When her relationship with a gang member was exposed, her parents threatened to cut her off. It wasn’t a threat that was ever liable to work. She loved him as he much as he loved her. ‘Infatuation,’ her parents called it, but they could go fuck themselves, a sentiment he expressed to them repeatedly as he and his gang smashed their delightful, cosy home to kingdom come. Five years later and she hadn’t so much as breathed a word about her parents or her old life. They were gone; not even forgotten, but erased. Lindsay would always be with him. To all intents and purposes she always had been with him.

She handed the spliff over with an inquiring look. “Everything’s fine,” he said, pulling the smoke deep into his lungs. “Everything.”

“Uh-huh,” she nodded, one eyebrow curling sceptically. “What next, then?”

McGuire paused before replying, the roiling surf filling their silence. “I’ve got an idea for a raid.”

“Tell me.” She smiled dreamily, pulling the sunnies away from those startling eyes.

“A big one. An airport.” He took an extended pull on the joint, watching it flare and subside.

“Sounds peachy.”

Pot smoke billowed from his half-open mouth.

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