The Touch by F. Paul Wilson

Author:F. Paul Wilson [Wilson, F. Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Fiction / Thrillers
ISBN: 9780515087338
Google: 1KOg1eg0DHUC
Amazon: 076536106X
Goodreads: 219416
Publisher: Jove
Published: 1986-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

“Now you know,” Alan said as they waved good-bye to Tony from their front steps.

Ginny turned and went into the house.

“I still can’t believe it,” she said. “I saw it, but…”

“So you can see why I can’t come out and say that the stories aren’t true.”

Ginny dropped onto the couch and sat staring at the far corner of the room.

“God, Alan.”

“You can see that, can’t you?”

He desperately wanted to hear her agree. She’d been so quiet and pensive since his little demonstration at Central and Howe. He hadn’t a clue as to what was going on in her mind.

She shook her head. “No,” she said. “I can’t see that at all. Not only have you got to deny it, you’ve got to stop using it.”

He was stunned. “What?”

“I mean it, Alan.” She rose and began to circle the couch, head down, her arms folded in front of her. “It’s ruining our life!”

“You mean forget I have it? Ignore it? Pretend it doesn’t exist?”

Finally she looked at him, face-to-face, eyes blazing. “Yes!”

Alan stared at her. “You really mean it, don’t you?”

“Of course I do! Look what it’s done to you! You can’t practice medicine anymore—the hospital won’t let you admit patients and you can’t get into your office without being mobbed by all the kooks hanging around outside it. Can you imagine what would happen if you publicly admitted that you can cure people? They’d tear you to pieces!”

Alan was numb. Deny the power exists? Not use the Hour of Power when it comes?

“So…” Ginny hesitated, took a deep breath, then began again. “So, I want a decision, Alan. I want a promise. I want you to hold some sort of news conference, or put out a press release, or what ever it is people do in a case like this, and tell the world that it’s all a pack of lies. I want you to go back to being a regular doctor and me back to being your regular wife. I can’t deal with what’s been happening here!”

There were tears in her eyes.

“Oh, Ginny,” he said, stepping toward her and taking her hands, “I know it’s been tough on you.” He didn’t know what else to say.

“You haven’t answered me, Alan.”

He thought of a future full of sick and miserable people with no hope trudging through his office, looking for help, and he saw himself letting them pass by as he stood mute and still with his hands in his pockets.

“Don’t ask this of me, Ginny.”

“Alan, I want things as they were!”

“Tell me: Could you stand on a dock and hide a life preserver behind your back while a drowning man cries for help?”

“Never mind the hypothetical stuff! This is real life—our life! And we’ve lost control of it! I want our old life back!”

Regret and resignation suddenly flooded through him. This was it. This was the end.

“That life is gone, Ginny. Things will never be the same again. I can’t stop.”

She jerked away from him. “You mean, you won’t stop!”

“I won’t stop.

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