The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett
Author:Robert Jackson Bennett
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: FIC009000
ISBN: 9780316123174
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 2011-04-10T22:00:00+00:00
When she came home she found Garvey waiting in the mezzanine of her floor, seated in a chair and playing with his hat in his lap. He looked up and then stood when she came near, and ran a nervous hand through his hair. He looked pale and weary, as though he had been up for days.
“Oh,” he said. “I wondered when you’d come home.”
“How long have you been waiting here?” she asked. “I was just at the station to drop off what we had on Skiller.”
“I haven’t been here too long. Sorry to make you go all the way to the station when you could have just held on to it.” He paused, then said, “Are you all right? Are you hurt? I missed you at the Hamilton. I wanted to check in on you.”
“My ears keep ringing,” she said, and she began to walk toward her apartment door. “And I may have sprained my wrist. But otherwise I’m fine. Much better than Mr. Hayes.”
“That’s good to hear,” he said, following her.
“I’m sorry for delaying your case, which it seems is what I was doing. I should have made Mr. Hayes stop once we had Mr. Skiller’s address and then given it to you, shouldn’t I?”
“That’s not what I’m here about,” he said. “I just wanted to make sure that you were okay.”
“Well, you can see that I’m fine,” she said, trying to believe it. She opened her apartment door slowly. The memories of the previous days bloomed in her head, the filthy, abandoned children and Hayes reading the goodbye letter as he sat upon the empty bed, and she badly wanted to think of something else, anything else. She looked at Garvey and saw he felt the same, perhaps. Blood was pounding in her ears, and she was reminded of the warehouse Evans had showed her, and the echoes in the deeps.
She entered and turned to him. “Why don’t you come in?” she asked. “You look like you’ve been awake for days.”
“That’s because I have,” he admitted. “I don’t even know what time it is.”
“Then why don’t you come in?”
Garvey hesitated. “I was just… seeing if you…”
He trailed off. She waited, but he did not say anything.
“Donald,” she said slowly and gently, “why don’t you come in?”
He looked at her, desperate and uncertain, and then nodded, still fumbling with his hat in his hands. He walked in and sat on her couch, and stared up at her earnestly. A cagey young thing, she thought, wearing years that lied about his true heart. Then, smiling slightly, she shut the door, and went to sit beside him.
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