The Good Lie by Robin Brande

Author:Robin Brande [Brande, Robin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ryer Publishing
Published: 2014-02-04T05:00:00+00:00

The Hard Faith

[1]

In answer to her question I handed Posie the recorder. She rewound and played it back. Our voices warbled at times as if we were underwater. My father sounded normal, reasonable. I was the psycho.

“We can’t use it,” I said when she had listened to my father’s parting words.

“Wait, I’m not sure.” She rewound it, but I stopped her before she could play it again.

“Posie, face it—it didn’t work.”

Posie sighed. She clutched the recorder, still damp from my skin, and seemed anxious to press her own good wishes inside it. “We can’t give up.”

I shrugged as if I were taking the whole thing well.

“Lizzie,” she ordered, “don’t be that way. So it didn’t go great—so what? You still have the letter. And maybe you can try again later.”

“No.”

“Come on,” she said with false brightness, “don’t let it set you back. We’ll talk to Angela, regroup, and—”

“And what, Poz? He knew what I was trying to do—obviously. Can’t you hear how careful he was? He’s on to me.”

“Maybe, maybe not.”

“Look, I screwed up. I had one shot at it and I couldn’t pull it off. Let’s just admit that.”

“We’ll take it to Angela.”

“Fine. She’ll say the same thing.”

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