What Comes Next by John Katzenbach

Author:John Katzenbach [Katzenbach, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Head of Zeus Ltd.

Adrian scrunched down in his car seat, hoping that his prior visit hadn’t made Mark Wolfe more alert to the idea that someone might be watching him. There were morning shadows carving out spots of shade where the rising sun was blocked by trees just starting to fill out with leaves. The world outside his window seemed to Adrian to be not quite naked, but not clothed either. Sometimes he thought the change in seasons had moments where some natural force was awaiting permission, a go-ahead, to gather momentum and turn the day from winter to spring.

He did not know how many changes he had left. Nor did he know how much longer he would be able to perceive them.

He shifted in his seat, to ask Brian, but his brother was no longer with him. He wondered why he couldn’t conjure up his hallucinations when he needed them. It would be reassuring to have someone to speak with and he wished his brother’s confident tones would help his own resolve.

He thought what he intended to do was borderline illegal. If it wasn’t against the law, it ought to be. Immoral, as well, which his brother the big-time lawyer would be particularly helpful with. Lawyers were always more comfortable with moral shades of gray.

“Brian?”

Silence. He expected this.

He peered up over the lip of the doorsill. Mark Wolfe should be coming out soon, he told himself, as he shivered.

He thought about his brother. When they were little it had always surprised him that Brian was so fearless. If Adrian and his friends were doing anything—swimming, playing ball, making trouble—Brian was always tagging along, and first to volunteer for whatever mischief was in store. Adrian remembered a moment where they had been called on the carpet by their parents. After being admonished, Brian had been sent off to his room. He had been called out further. You’re supposed to watch out for your little brother and Adrian, how could you let him… He had been unable to explain that even with their difference in age it was Brian who seemed to be the leader. Backwards, he thought. Our growing up was backwards. But then, he said out loud, “But that still doesn’t tell me why you shot yourself.”

Adrian thought that everything in his life was a mystery except his work. Why did Cassie love him? Why did Tommy die? What was wrong with Brian that he hadn’t been able to see what he was going to do?

He thought his disease had one thing going for it. All these questions and all the sadness that had stalked him were going to disappear in a fog of loss. He breathed out. I’m dead already, he thought.

He heard a car door shut.

A quick glance and he saw Mark Wolfe pulling out of his driveway, just as he had the day before. The sex offender drove off.

Adrian looked down at his watch. It had been a gift from his wife on their twenty-fifth anniversary. Waterproof—although he rarely went into the water.

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