Blazing Fear by Leisl Leighton

Author:Leisl Leighton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Escape Publishing

Chapter 17

Prita stared at Barb, wondering for a moment which one of them had gone stark raving mad?

Barb, for suggesting that Flynn loved her?

Or Prita for wanting it to be true?

‘I’ll leave you to think about that, shall I?’ Barb was still smiling at her, like she’d not just dropped a bomb and was completely unaware of the destruction she’d left behind as she walked past Prita towards the kitchen door. ‘Go make your calls and then come to the kitchen. I think we could all do with a cuppa and some scones after the day we’ve had so far.’

Scones? Tea? To be talking about scones and tea when the world had just been turned completely upside-down was insanity, wasn’t it?

A phone started to ring. It was the theme to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. That was her phone’s ring tone. She’d had her phone on her last night but it hadn’t been at the hospital so she assumed it was lost in the fire. She glanced around and noticed her handbag on the side table by the front door. How had that got here?

She’d left it in the car when she’d got home last night. Someone must have got it—and her car. Perhaps it wasn’t a burned-out mess like she’d imagined. Not that it mattered. It was hers. Something physical that was hers that had survived the fires. She ran across the room to grab it. Her phone was still ringing. She dug around in the handbag and grabbed it out. Papa’s face lit up the screen.

‘Papa?’

‘Aingeal. Thank the sweet lord. Are you okay? I’ve been calling and calling since I got the message that you’d been injured in a fire, but you weren’t answering your phone.’

‘I’m fine, Papa, I’m fine.’ She should have called him. Why hadn’t she called him? Oh, that’s right, she’d been out of it then Chandra had arrived and then she was released from hospital and in the car all the way back to CoalCliff she’d been busy calling the insurance company and figuring out how she could possibly run her clinic without even any of the basics. Then when they’d got here Flynn had had his episode and she’d gone and kissed him to distract him, which had, incredibly, worked except he’d left in a huff and then Barb had been all like, ‘he loves you’ and she had barely been able to breathe let alone put together a coherent thought process. So, plenty of reasons for not calling Diarmuid. But now she felt like a shit for not thinking of him and his worry first. ‘I’m so sorry, Papa, but I didn’t have my phone with me and there was so much to do at the hospital and calling the insurance company on the way back here—’

‘It’s fine, aingeal, I understand. I was just worried, that’s all. It’s such a relief to hear your voice though.’

‘It’s wonderful to hear yours too.’

‘Is Carter okay? I—’

The phone hissed and crackled and she missed his next words.

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