Can You See Me? by Lynne Lee

Author:Lynne Lee [Lynne Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781542014939
Published: 2019-12-31T22:00:00+00:00

It takes a good while to sift through David’s iMessages. An eerie, unsettling and heartbreaking business, not least because the last one on the list, from a close colleague, reads Dave, you free? About that patient. Can you call me urgently? It had landed on his phone at 11.07. Half an hour after he collapsed. Half a day before he died.

I’m also surrounded by photographs of him and when I dare to meet his gaze, it hits me in a way that it has never done before. That he really is gone. That he is never coming back. That he will never walk into this room again, on a quest for some man-thing or other, and roll his eyes, and say, really, Jules, yet more bloody photos?

There are more similar messages, from contacts both known and unknown to me.

Dave, I have the scan result.

Okay, mate, in the diary.

Me again – sorry! – how about 3 p.m. Thursday?

And among them, from Tash, just the day before he’d died, the most heart-wrenching of all of them.

Daaaddyyyyy, re Friday, how exciting! Yes, indeed I can. Shall I book Jamie’s Italian? Can’t wait to seeeee you! Proseccccccco times! Woop! (Smiley face. Pizza. Balloon. Italian flag.)

I’m scanning through tears by the time I finally find what I’m looking for. Just a number, which matches – Kane was not saved with a name – and an unbroken chain, the most recent at the end of January, which I scroll through in reverse, last to first. Then first to last, but, whichever way, they tell me almost nothing. Few in number. Mostly factual. I take screenshots of them all.

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