Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

Author:Ayelet Gundar-Goshen [Ayelet Gundar-Goshen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781782271574
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Published: 2016-09-08T04:00:00+00:00

Hours later, when the aftershave had been replaced by the sour smell of sweat, one of the nurses came over to him and said, “Your wife’s on the phone.” He apologized to his patient and hurried out to answer. He’d been expecting that call since morning. Liat would tell him that the Bedouin girl was dead, and then she’d start to cry. Or first she’d start to cry and then tell him that the Bedouin girl was dead. He’d be no less shocked than she was. He’d calm her down. He’d say, “Tuli, it’s not your fault. You were only trying to help.” And he’d really believe himself when he said it. He wouldn’t think that, in fact, she was to blame for the never-ending investigation and the promotion that might come at the end of it. When he’d hear her crying, he’d know the promotion was just an excuse for something else, that desire of Liat’s to be one of the good guys. The ones who do things well, because that’s how they should be done. Like doctors. Surely no one did it for the money. Or the prestige. Seven years of school in order to find out that if there were both good and evil forces in the world, you were undoubtedly on the side of the good.

He intended to say all that when he picked up the receiver, which is why he was very surprised to hear not Liat’s tormented voice on the other end, but a different voice, a calm and collected one.

I need you to come today.

“Why do you think you can call here?”

You’re not answering your phone.

He told her something she already knew, that his phone was turned off during shifts, and she told him that he hadn’t answered last night either, or this morning. She said they had patients. Many. Yesterday she’d told them all to go because he decided he’d rather treat that Bedouin girl, but today he had to come. He said, “I can’t come today, Sirkit, I’m on duty until late,” and she said, So I’ll tell them to come tomorrow, and hung up.

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