Donor, The by FitzGerald Helen

Author:FitzGerald, Helen [FitzGerald, Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780571254385
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2011-07-21T06:00:00+00:00

Will’s pace quickened as he retraced his steps back to Kay’s room. He pushed the door open so hard that it frightened Georgie and Cynthia, and woke Kay.

‘You useless bitch!’ he yelled, moving towards the still-kneeling Cynthia. ‘You fucking useless bitch!’

‘Dad!’ Georgie put herself in front of her father. He’d gone mad. He was going to kill her mother.

‘Dad, stop!’ Kay said weakly. ‘What’s going on? Who’s this?’ She pulled her hand from Cynthia’s grasp. Who was this woman? Why was she kneeling at her bed? Why was she holding her hand?

‘This?’ Will said pointing at Cynthia. ‘This is the woman who abandoned you when you were three. This is the woman who wanted to screw a drug dealer rather than look after you. This is the woman who chose heroin and a thug over us. This …’ Will was still trying to get away from Georgie’s stronghold. He wanted to hurt her. ‘This is the woman who chose to screw up her organs. You screwed them up, Cynthia. They’re useless to us. Get out of here. Go away. GET OUT OF HERE!’

Georgie released her grasp. She and Will stared at Cynthia, who was now sitting on the floor beside Kay. She’d stopped crying. She didn’t realise it, but her face was unable to hide her true feelings. She could get out of here now. She’d offered, done the right thing, been unselfish – as she always had been – and now she could go and relieve some stress and talk to Heath. He’d make her feel better. She deserved to feel better. Should she stand up straight away? Or protest first?

‘It can’t be,’ she was the kind of person to decide on the latter. ‘I must be able to help.’

‘You can’t,’ Will said. ‘As ever, we’re better off without you. Just go.’

She turned to Kay, who had said nothing. Kay’s expression was kind, but no more than that. She rolled onto her side so that Cynthia could no longer look at her. ‘You were always the pretty one,’ she said, touching Kay’s hair.

Georgie bit her lip.

‘I’ll go, then,’ Cynthia said.

The mother in the room opposite watched as Cynthia left the room. As it turned out, these two families had nothing in common.

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