Mosquito by Roma Tearne

Author:Roma Tearne [Tearne, Roma]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: contemporary, C429, Extratorrents, Kat
ISBN: 9780007233663
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Published: 2007-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Sugi bent over the girl. He could see the moonlight on her face as she slept, innocent of what had just occurred. That she was in danger, that she was alone once more. That last night was the last carefree moment of her life; that only minutes before she had held everything she ever wanted. Whoever had brought her the news of her father’s death would have known, thought Sugi, how he felt now. Sleep marked her face like a caress as he shook her awake. Three times in her short life, he thought, his whispers fluttering towards her, confused and urgent. In the distance a train hooted, reaching far into the night, a sound of infinite loneliness, hauntingly sad. Sugi could see she was still half asleep. He could see his words shifting in and out of meaning, elusive and insubstantial. He saw that her sleep-filled limbs were still disconnected from her mind, that she could not yet be prepared to feel Theo’s absence. Perhaps, he thought, with a feeling of terrible pity, perhaps she never would be prepared. So thought Sugi as he finally shook her awake, seeing also, by the way in which his words fixed in her mind, that she understood in the clearest moment of horror that she would not hear Theo Samarajeeva’s voice again.

The moon, like a searchlight, shone relentlessly over the room. It silhouetted the chair, the corner of the wardrobe mirror and Theo’s shoes. Staring at them in the second before the girl’s despair broke open and he put his hand over her mouth, Sugi remembered also, as though it was an ordinary matter, that her mother had died yesterday. He held the passport Theo had left, and told her swiftly what they must do. They had no time to lose. At any moment the men might return. Sir had wanted her to be taken to Colombo, to safety. He had not wanted her uncle to find her here. It had been Sir’s biggest fear, Sugi told her.

‘Quickly,’ he said, helping her to gather her things, locking up the house, hurrying her out of the back gate and across the moonlit beach. ‘There’s a train that passes the level crossing by the next cove. It’s the mail train to Colombo and it passes in twenty minutes.’ Her uncle might be back at any moment. ‘I will come with you to Colombo,’ Sugi said. ‘After I get you to the house of his friends, I will come back with Mr Rohan and find Sir. I promise you,’ he said.

Theo had made emergency plans many months ago, Sugi told her. Should there be trouble Sugi was to take her to Rohan and Giulia. She would be safe there. She must come, Sugi insisted, desperate now, for the girl refused to move.

‘They must not find you here,’ he pleaded. ‘It will be worse for Sir. I will come back and find him. I will find him. You must believe me. Let’s not waste any more time, please.

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