To Love Thy Neighbour by Mala S M

Author:Mala, S M [Mala, S M]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: S M Mala
Published: 2015-06-12T17:00:00+00:00

‘I’m fine.’

He wasn’t.

Leon was completely devastated by Esme’s comments the night before and realised he had left it a little too late to thank her for everything.

And he wanted to know who the man was.

‘Didn’t you sleep well?’ his father asked when Leon dropped Mali to spend the day and night with her grandparents. ‘What’s upsetting you?’

They were standing by his van on Friday morning before he headed off for a job.

‘I’ll come and pick her up tomorrow.’ Leon didn’t want to talk about it. ‘She’s very happy at the moment.’

‘Leon?’ his father asked.

‘I’ve got things to sort out and, I don’t know. I swore I saw Ben when we were away,’ he whispered, shaking his head. ‘She was standing so close.’

‘You’re joking!’

‘I don’t know but I want to know where she is.’

‘Why?’

‘Because it made me feel uneasy,’ he honestly replied as Stan frowned. ‘I don’t want her to think she has rights over Mali.’

Taking Leon by the arm, his father walked him a little away from the house.

‘This is because Mali got slapped, you know it is,’ his father said anxiously. ‘And I know you were pretty distressed. It’s all right now. Your mother can see the error of her ways and has boycotted the hairdressers. That’s going to save me a bob or two because it costs a fortune!’

Leon shook his head and wanted Esme to hold him in her arms like she did the day Melanie slapped Mali.

‘I better go,’ Leon said, walking back to his van. ‘Tell her to call me if she wants a chat, even about Peppa Pig.’

‘Will do!’

He drove off and went to some appointments before heading to the large house.

It was a hive of activity, and he walked in then stopped to look at where he made love to Esme.

He noticed the ceiling had been newly plastered.

Tracy and Shona were working away then he walked into the garden. It was pretty much finished.

‘So you decided to come back?’ Graham grabbed him and gave him a hug. ‘Why so miserable? You’ve had a week away in the sun.’

‘You don’t want to know.’

By lunchtime, Graham knew everything and sat in the café, looking shell-shocked.

‘Are you sure it was Bennylita?’ he asked quietly, squeezing Leon’s arm.

‘I’d know her face anywhere, and she saw me,’ he replied, shaking his head from side to side. ‘What’s she doing there?’ Letting out a loud groan, he buried his head in his hands. ‘Thank God Mali didn’t see her.’

‘But she must have seen Mali.’ Graham cleared his throat. ‘You still have her email address, and I can guess, her solicitor knows where she is. Your parents did it all legally to keep her away. There’s an agreement that can’t be broken. If she wanted to do something, then she would have done it.’

‘It’s the way she looked at Mali like she was the most wonderful thing she had ever seen.’

‘She doesn’t know where you live. The woman can’t do anything.’

‘Ben has been emailing me.’

‘What?’

‘Over the past year, there have been emails but I never read them; never bothered to reply.

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