The Faithful Couple by A. D. Miller

Author:A. D. Miller [Miller, A. D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9781408705926
Google: fbd9BAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Little, Brown UK
Published: 2015-03-05T08:00:00+00:00

He checked his phone as he was putting it into his jacket. Two overnight texts: one from Strahan, sent at six o’clock in the morning, which said Office, 8.15; the other, from Adam, sent at half-past three, said, Great to see you. I’m sorry. Neil envisioned his friend pacing around in the small hours, bearing his infant daughter and the memories she inflicted.

As much as the lies, it was a matter of roles. Adam’s was always to be immaculate, intangibly superior. Neil’s was to be a kind of scrappy insurgent, amusing and testing but deferring to his friend. They had both seemed to understand that arrangement without it ever being articulated. Adam had been the one to phone the driveaway firms in San Diego; only he could have made the first phone call after they flew home. Yet neither of them were quite the things they had been a decade before. Perhaps Adam had never been what Neil wanted him to be in the first place. The question was whether after they stripped away the made-up stuff, all the mutual invention, after he subtracted these lies, there was anything left, anything true and real, which was worth keeping.

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