Carry Me: A Novel by Peter Behrens

Author:Peter Behrens [Behrens, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2016-02-22T23:00:00+00:00

“I’d go with you,” she said.

He laughed. She was smiling. But I knew she was serious.

“Flatbush, Brooklyn,” Mick told her. “Uncle Jer’s a sergeant on the New York police. He’s offered me a bed. But he’s got six kids, or seven.”

“We needn’t stay with Uncle Jer.” She was smiling and her voice was light.

It had been a warm day. A scent that was sweet hay, horse dung, and old dry timbers rose from the stalls below. Were they going to run off to America? Together? Could two people not much older than myself take their lives in their hands that way?

A car horn broke the stillness aggressively. I recognized the sound of Longo’s Mercedes. Longo and Karin were going off for the evening, that explained why she was dressed as Diana.

Without another word she got up and left. We listened to her run lightly down the wooden staircase.

Mick raised a finger to his lips. “Don’t say a word, Billy. You weren’t here. Didn’t see nor hear anything, right?”

“If you say so.”

“Let’s go for a walkabout and a smoke.”

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