Hard Light- Infamous by Warren Hately

Author:Warren Hately [Hately, Warren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-17T16:00:00+00:00

NINETEEN

HE WOKE TO find the house empty.

Flanagan made his way around slowly, organising tea and toast, a small load of laundry, checking the other rooms of the house and examining Lord’s and Teneille’s bedroom on his way to the back veranda and a cigarette. It was nearly ten when his phone rang and he hobbled back through to the bedroom, sorting through the covers until he had the device in hand.

It was his mother.

“I was a little concerned, Mick, when you didn’t get back to me about Saturday night,” she opened.

Flanagan sniffled and sat at the kitchen table, Oregon pine that looked recycled from some rough former use.

“I had a bit of a blue,” he told her. “I’m not feeling too well.”

“Oh dear, I hope it’s nothing serious.”

“Mum, I’ve got a few broken ribs.” He kept talking before she could ramp up the hysterics. “It’s not the first time and it’s probably not the last. I’ve seen a doctor and they’re taped. There’s not much else, but for time to heal all wounds, as they say.”

“What have you been doing that you’re breaking –?”

“I told you I had a job to do. I was helping a friend.”

“What, with the running of the bulls?”

“No,” he sighed. “Not with the running of the bulls, mum. Jeez.”

“Let me come around and see you,” she said.

His mother sounded old, pleading.

He stared at the grain of the wood in the table like it might suddenly burst into rainbow colours. He could feel the inevitable words moving their way from deep in his bowels and up his throat, moments before he spoke them.

“Alright.”

And he gave her the address.

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