The Incident by Andrew Neiderman

Author:Andrew Neiderman
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781780107738
Publisher: Severn House Publishers
Published: 2016-02-03T05:00:00+00:00

ELEVEN

Even though he was having his lunch at Top’s Diner, a popular place, Marvin took Bart Stonefield’s bringing her here for takeout as an arrogant affront. Surely Bart had seen his truck out there when he pulled up with her, but he still came in, and this just hours after he had confronted him. The arrogant bastard.

Marvin could barely control his rage, and he knew when he got like this, he was vulnerable in ways he despised in other men – that look of guilt, that giveaway. He would avoid looking directly at anyone, especially someone in any sort of authority – even a waitress in a restaurant, for Christ’s sake, afraid she would take one look at him and know all his little secrets, know whom he had robbed recently and, in the past, knew when he had shoplifted, knew when he had put that snake in Mrs Rotter’s top desk drawer in tenth grade … on and on, until the waitress would suddenly scream and point to him and shout, ‘It was him!’

He hated looking meek and frightened, but he warned himself that raw anger, such as he was feeling now, put him at risk. Maybe that was what Bart Stonefield hoped would happen. He sat there in Top’s, forcing the rage back like someone swallowing resurging bile. When he felt confident that he would not attract any interest or attention, he left. He didn’t walk too quickly or rush to his car. He strolled like someone who had all the time in the world. He even drove more slowly than usual.

But when he was away from any prying eyes, the rage rushed back through him. Stonefield was so arrogantly confident. He hated rich people. He loved overcharging them whenever he could. He hated the way they were able to bypass the tough stuff of everyday life, like getting enough food on the table or paying the electric bill, just as much as he hated them for their expensive cars and clothes, the freedom they had to buy almost anything, the lack of worry about how much they spent, and especially their indifference to those poorer than they were.

He wasn’t a communist or anything like that and he was far from being against making money. He simply hated how easily some seemed to be able to do it, even some of the electricians and plumbers he knew, and especially those smug accountants and lawyers. He hated their kids who had inherited all their privileges – a guy like Bart Stonefield.

When he was younger, he was good at hiding all this resentment. He couldn’t recall the first time he had had someone from a family wealthier than his buy him lunch or dinner, but he was sure he had enjoyed it. In a way, it was like getting back at them, or at Fate for handing him a lousy hand at the card table of life.

It was easy to pull up to a gas station and have one of them pay to fill his tank.

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