Our Last Goodbye_An Absolutely Gripping and Emotional World War 2 Historical Novel by Shirley Dickson

Author:Shirley Dickson [Dickson, Shirley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Family Life, General, War & Military, Romance, historical, Sagas
ISBN: 9781786817167
Google: S-CKDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B07P97111J
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2019-05-29T00:00:00+00:00

15

‘Let’s stay out a bit longer and go to the pub,’ Alec said.

They stood at the top end of Nana’s street and the bigger than usual moon hanging in the sky held a ponderous expression as though it was trying to tell May something.

‘If you don’t mind, Alec, I’m bushed. I want an early night.’ May intended to tell him about the break-up when they reached Parklands.

The vein ticked in his temple.

‘I want…’ Alec spat. ‘I know what you’re up to. You’re meeting with that fella, aren’t you?’

‘What!’

‘Him – I saw you talking to earlier.’

‘You mean Mr Harrison? I told you who he—’

‘I saw the idolising way you looked at him… and his smile was all knowin’.’

‘Alec, he’s a patient’s son and he’s married with a kid.’

‘When did that ever stop anybody?’

In the moon’s eerie white light, Alec’s livid face was unsettling.

May put on her professional head and thought of him as an angry and overwhelmed relative.

‘You’re upset. When you calm down we’ll talk this over but for now let’s—’

‘You conniving bitch… all the time carrying on behind me back. How many are there? Besides the one I saw at the dance and him this afternoon?’

His face was now vicious. May, stunned and frightened at such abominable behaviour, knew arguing wouldn’t solve the matter.

Alec had turned into a jealous lunatic.

‘I’m off home,’ she said, with authority, though she felt at a loss and vulnerable.

As she turned to go, he grabbed her arm. May wriggled but couldn’t get free.

A man passing by in the street, cigarette in his mouth, looked at them from beneath the rim of his trilby hat.

‘Please help me,’ May pleaded but the man ducked his head and hurried off along the street. Probably he thought it was just a lover’s tiff and didn’t want to get involved.

‘Let go of me.’ She struggled.

Out of the corner of her eyes she saw a trolley coming from the left towards the bus stop the other side of Dean Road.

It came to a halt.

‘I never want to see you again,’ she told Alec.

‘We’ll see about that,’ he sneered. ‘You’re not goin’ anywhere unless I say so. Or else I’ll beat the living daylight out of yi’. That’ll teach you to double-time me.’

He let go of her arm and raised his own as if to strike her. Terrified, but with her wits about her, quick as a flash, May darted across the road. As the trolley pulled away from the kerb she jumped onto the platform and clung onto the centre pole for dear life.

The conductor, a middle-aged man, tipped the peak of his uniform cap in agitation.

‘Miss, d’you want to get yerself killed?’

Like Mam, May thought. And her chin wobbled – at this moment she desperately needed comfort from her mother.

Her breath coming in short gasps, she found a window seat in the first row after she left the platform. Pulse racing, May was terrified. She gave an incredulous shake of the head. This was Alec, someone she’d grown fond of – but now a person who scared her witless.

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