The Cull: Book one by Roach Joanne

Author:Roach, Joanne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-07-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Two

Through the tall windows, Steph could see the last rays of the setting sun beginning to dip out of sight behind the tall buildings opposite the restaurant, its collection of reds, oranges and yellows fading away and making way for the night. I should make an effort to watch it set tomorrow, she thought to herself. It’s not something she’d ever considered taking the time to do previously. Now, with only three more sunsets remaining to her, she felt like she should make an effort. Isn’t that what people do in the movies? When they know their time is coming to an end? Find an abandoned hilltop somewhere, look out over the city they have lived in and loved all their lives, and watch as the sun sets on the horizon?

Melancholy thoughts like this had become her constant companions in the last couple of weeks. She tried to remember everything she did in the minutest detail, wondering if it would be the last time she would experience it. Every street that she walked down, every tree that she saw, she tried to commit to memory. Each person that she spoke to, each conversation that she had, no matter how seemingly mundane, she tried to make it meaningful. Determined to try and convey to everyone in her life just how much they meant to her before it was too late. Steph wanted to leave them with happy memories of her rather than the sight of the despondent look that she knew perpetually covered her features nowadays. She wanted the people around her, those she had worked with for years, spent her days and nights laughing and joking with, to remember her with a smile. Not pity her for her rough deal or lament the fact that she was gone.

That was partially why, even though she had little over seventy-two hours left to live, Steph had still come in to work tonight. Just like she had done nearly every Friday night for as long as she could remember. She had donned her threadbare and stained grey apron, tried to smooth out as many of the creases in her slightly discoloured white shirt as she could, popped a pencil behind her ear and carried on as though nothing had changed. As though this wasn’t the last shift that she would ever work, as though she wasn’t a dead woman walking.

Tony had tried his best to convince her that she should stop coming in weeks ago when she first got her end-of-life date and officially knew how long she had left. Telling her that she should be spending her time doing things that mattered, things that she would regret not having taken the time to do later, but Steph had been deaf to his suggestions. Determined to continue working and saving as much money as she could right up until the last. Determined not to sit at home dwelling on what was to come and to keep as busy as she could.

What would

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