Living Proof by John Harvey

Author:John Harvey
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 0749318236
Published: 2011-07-06T18:30:00+00:00

"Half ten in the Arboretum then, okay?"

"Get there first," Divine grinned, 'and mine's a pint of Kimberley. "

"You wish! I'm the one doing you a favour, remember? And mine's a Bacardi and Coke. Large. Ten thirty, right?"

Divine watched as Sharon walked away.

"Second thoughts, why don't you go hobnobbing with the in-laws after all. Leave this to me."

"Thought you were being faithful this month?" Naylor said.

"One-woman man."

"Yeah, so I am," Divine grinned, grabbing his crotch. "It's just this that doesn't understand."

Twenty-seven "Honey, you sure you're up for this?"

Cathy Jordan hesitated in what she was doing, adjusting her silver Zuni earrings in front of the mirror; her favourites, the ones she had bought in Santa Fe.

"God, Frank, I wish you wouldn't do that."

"What? Show a little concern?"

"Call me honey that way. Makes me feel like something out of Norman Rockwell."

"Not The ShiningT He came up behind her with arm raised, as if holding a knife, leering his manic Jack Nieholson leer.

"Honey, I'm home!"

"Jesus, Frank."

What? "

"All that's been going on, that's not so funny."

Dipping his head towards her shoulder, an oddly tender gesture, he slid both arms around her.

"That guy, huh? The one in the paper. Poor bastard!"

She was looking at his reflection in the dressing table mirror, both their reflections: familiar and strange.

Frank? "

"Umm?"

"Did you read any of the new book?"

"Your new book?"

Uh-huh. "

"I didn't think you'd even shipped it off to the publishers yet."

"No, but..." "You're still working on it, right?"

"Fiddling, that's all. The manuscript."

"You remember one time you caught me reading these pages you'd left lying around? I thought you were going to go crazy."

Cathy Jordan smiled into the mirror.

"That was a while back. I was more cranky then. Nervous, I guess."

"What you mean is, back then, you cared what I thought."

"That's not what I mean at all." Looking at him, defiance and concern in his eyes, the stance of his body, strength of his arms. So easy to have turned inside those arms.

"Anyway," Frank said.

"I didn't look at it, not a peek. How come you ask?"

"Oh..." Her voice drifted off and she looked away; how strange desire was, months in which she had felt God! - nothing, at best a mixture of comfort and irritation, and now this.

"It doesn't matter," she said, and moved her mouth over his.

They kissed until it was difficult to breathe.

"Jeeze," Frank said, as she released him.

"What's got into you?"

Cathy let her smile spread wide and when she laughed it was down and dirty.

"Recently, not a whole lot."

He reached for her and she reached for him.

"Well," Cathy said, eyebrow arched.

"Have you been working out?"

They were midway between the dressing table and the bed when the phone rang.

"Leave it," Frank said.

"All right." But she could see the time, winking at her, green-eyed, from the clock radio beside the bed.

"Cathy, come on."

She reached out a hand and the ringing stopped. "Hello," she said, listening a moment before dropping the receiver back down.

"It's Mollie. She's in the foyer, waiting. We have to be there in thirty minutes."

Frank rolled clumsily round and leaned forward, elbows on his knees, fingers pressed against his temples.

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