Pebble by Julia Jones

Author:Julia Jones
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Social Issues, Childrens, Action & Adventure, Fiction
Publisher: Golden Duck (UK) Ltd
Published: 2018-11-05T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

An unidentified object

Zander sighed as he climbed the steep, uneven steps up onto the sea wall. Why would people walk for pleasure? He was fed up, his feet were aching and he knew that he was going to be in trouble when he finally returned to the school. He hoped it would only be school trouble. In his head he was sure that there wasn’t anything Iakov could do to hurt him here in England; in his heart he wasn’t so confident.

There was a small piece of fence across the path. It had a crosswise step and probably some particular name he hadn’t learned. It would stop the motorbike coming after him. There were waves splashing against the wall on the seaward side and small lagoons inland. Ponds. They were nothing compared to the lagoons at home. Those were like inland seas.

Though Kaliningrad wasn’t his home anymore. Nor was St Petersburg. His family had houses in several place but no home. Always exiles.

Zander wished his father was back. Had to talk. Had to make him listen. Tell him how he hated it here.

He hated himself, too. How could he have hit a child who had trusted him? Zander disregarded his own sore stomach – he knew he’d pushed Liam too far, holding his guitar out of reach, threatening. Behaving like Iakov.

Zander trudged along the wall. It was a sunny day, waves dancing, seabirds calling. He wasn’t wanted. This was a Keep Out coast. There were walls and rocks to Keep Out the sea; Martello towers to Keep Out the French; concrete gun emplacements to Keep Out the Germans and on the site behind his so-called school there’d had been nuclear missiles to Keep Out the Russians.

For one wild moment Zander considered really talking to Anna. Not just making conversation, but explaining his feelings, asking for her understanding.

No chance of that now he’d slapped her little brother.

Zander hunched his shoulders and tried to ignore the bruising on his stomach and the blisters on his feet. He’d ring for the car once he’d stayed away long enough.

A jet ski came snarling in from the sea. Its engine cut out and there was his bodyguard mounting the wall ahead of him. Zander looked back. He could see the glint of the sun on the roof of the Mercedes. His driver was over the gate and jogging along the path to catch up with him. There was someone else beyond that. Some ‘goon’, Zander thought, using a word he’d learned from watching old films. Unless he chose to go swimming he was trapped.

He stood still, pulled himself up straight and waited for them. They were employees, he reminded himself. Though it didn’t feel like that. Not at all.

Lottie had done the right thing. She hadn’t gone straight to Bawdsey, she’d driven to Fynn Creek. Parked her car and run down the slope to Lowestoft Lass .

Bill was there. He’d pulled himself onto the low cabin roof and was sitting with a girl. They were discussing something with intense concentration, their heads close together.

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