Fathers by David J. Daniel

Author:David J. Daniel [Daniel, David J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Suspense, Family
ISBN: 9781468184075
Amazon: 1468184075
Barnesnoble: 1468184075
Goodreads: 14419066
Publisher: Createspace
Published: 2012-02-01T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

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ack walked past his mother’s room and glanced in as the door stood ajar. He saw she was alone and he guessed that he had left during the night. They would try and keep their relationship from him, keep it a secret. For a while anyway, until they thought he could handle it, until they thought he was old enough to understand probably and had gotten used to the idea that Doug was to be his substitute father. Like that was ever going to happen.

Jack entered the kitchen and filled his haversack with bread, some onions and a couple of potatoes. He cut a large slab of meat off the leg of mutton that was hanging in the safe and wrapped up some butter and cheese which also went into the bag. He cut a large whack of bread and slathered it with butter, and manuka honey which came from their own hives, and gobbled it down. He guzzled a glass of milk wiped his face with the back of his hand and grabbed his rifle from the corner of the room as he headed out the door. On the way to fetch his horse Rosy, he checked the chook house - they were still getting the odd egg even though it was winter - and surprisingly he saw two in a nest. He took both of them and placed them carefully in a woollen hat he had in his bag. He went to the shed, found another saddle blanket and saddled his horse. Hanging over the fence he saw a large piece of canvas that used to cover old Bessie, the farm hack that dropped dead earlier this year when the first frost of winter hit and they hadn’t got round to replacing. He folded the canvas and placed it in front of the saddle as he mounted the pony. And then he was off. Leaving Jess whining and pacing up and down in her pen eager to go with him. “Sorry girl. Not this time. I can’t trust ya around the possums, you’ll wreck the skins,” he said to her. He knew he should’ve done his chores before he left but he thought: Stuff ‘em. They’ll be too into themselves to worry about what I have or haven’t done.

Twenty minutes later he met up with Wiremu.

“My mother knows about us not going to school on Fridays,” said Jack.

“Bugger,” said Wiremu.

“I reckon,” said Jack.

And they crossed the ford in the river.

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They had both woken almost at the same time in the night and they made love again, less frantic this time, more sensual. And after their lovemaking she had asked him to leave. She had thought it was too soon for Jack to find out. Said she would give it a bit longer before she told him about the two of them. He’d agreed. He could wait. No problem. Patience was the key, he had said to her. Patience Ellen. Always worked for him. And she had thanked him for being so understanding and he went back to his cold bed in the guest room.

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