The Red Castle (The Lucas Trilogy Book 2) by Melín León

Author:Melín, León [Melín, León]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Handmaid Books
Published: 2015-02-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11 – Love

Lucas tried to pay his way out of the campsite and retrieve his ID card. If it wasn’t for the ID card, he would have left without paying, or at least, leaving his payment behind but avoiding another meeting with the family. The idiot son was nowhere to be seen, but the mother and father were in the little cabin.

The mother asked him his name, and checked his arrival date, which Lucas could easily remember because it was the last day of the 24 Hours. She counted each day of the stay on a calendar, counted them twice, and explicitly stated that she wouldn’t charge for the coming night, a most generous gesture. Even so, the bill was twice what Lucas expected. Maybe the individual day price was heavily multiplied by his long stay, or maybe it was just a Euro/Franc conversion factor, but he didn’t dare question it in case a conversation should begin. He paid. She held out her hand until he had painstakingly filled it with the new-fangled notes and coins up to the last 25 cents.

Smiling congratulations were the final part of the payment process, during which the bowing Lucas caught sight of the book the mother had been intensely reading when he had walked in. It was a cheap, romantic novel, titled “Un Amour Impossible”. Lucas looked up at the broad peasant faces smiling broadly at him. Were they laughing, at him ?

What was impossible about it ? Two people, adults, consented. There was no youthful, ignorant idealism. Both had had long relationships with other partners. Both knew the score. Lucas, descending the stairs of the cabin, was determined to prove them wrong; nothing was impossible, if one wanted it enough. And he did. He wanted nothing else.

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