White Dog by Peter Temple

Author:Peter Temple [Temple, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Azizex666
ISBN: 9780857380951
Amazon: 0857380958
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2011-10-02T04:00:00+00:00

They let me out on a Friday in early May, round 6 of the football, damp, a wind shaking the bare trees. Drew carried my bag to his car. It wasn’t necessary, but I didn’t want to argue about it.

We drove in silence. He was going the wrong way.

‘What route is this?’ I said. ‘Have they reconfigured the city while I wasn’t looking?’

‘My place,’ said Drew.

‘Mine, I think,’ I said. ‘I have a need for home.’

‘You can’t come out of hospital after umpteen weeks and go back to an empty house,’ he said.

‘Bullshit. Anyway, what do you mean empty? Furniture gone? Haven’t you noticed it’s been empty for fucking years? No one there except me. Take me home.’

I heard the harsh tone of my voice.

We stopped at lights. Drew turned his long face. ‘Jack,’ he said, ‘don’t spoil my plans. Tonight, we have a beer or two. Then we eat these steaks from the main man. With them, a red I’ve been saving for fifteen years. Then we sit in front of the fire with a drop of Rutherglen nectar and watch the footy.’

He coughed. ‘Unfortunately,’ he said, ‘we then see the Saints get their scrawny arses kicked to buggery.’

I looked away, willed myself to be a normal person.

‘Steak?’ I said. ‘Just steak? Is that all?’

‘Good boy,’ said Drew.

I saw relief on his face.

‘With home-cooked thick-cut chips,’ he said.

‘Yes?’

‘Well. Heated at home in the home oven. Defrosted. That’s close, isn’t it?’

‘And the wine? What’s that?’

We pulled away, he jerked his head at me. ‘I can just as easily drop you off at home,’ he said. ‘You appear to me to be fully recovered.’

‘Drive,’ I said. ‘Just drive. It’s what you’re not good at.’

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