Heading Home by Kiernan-Lewis Susan

Author:Kiernan-Lewis, Susan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ireland, war, plague, ya, dystopian, emp
Publisher: Susan Kiernan-Lewis

Aideen watched Mike and Sarah part company like two toddlers stomping off to separate corners. Sarah marched away, obviously heading back in the direction of the Widow Murray’s cottage, and Mike just lumbered… away.

Fiona was doing her best to soothe the situation and for that Aideen was grateful, but she noticed she also followed Sarah with her eyes until the American disappeared from view. Likely she’d run over to the Widow Murray’s the first chance she got to see how Sarah was, too.

“I know it’s a difficult situation,” Fiona was saying. “They have a history and you have unfortunately overlapped that by a bit.”

“That’s one way to put it,” Aideen said. “I don’t think I’ve ever felt so angry in my whole life. I honestly don’t know what came over me.”

“Well, love makes you do crazy things.”

“Then how do you explain Mike coming here and taking off with her and not saying word one to me?”

Fiona gaped in surprise. “But, he broke up the fight. He rescued you.”

“Then why doesn’t it feel like a rescue? Why does it feel like he didn’t even see me?”

“That’s ridiculous,” Fiona said, but Aideen didn’t think she argued the point very forcefully.

“I’m serious, Fiona. Did you see them over there? The way they looked at each other? I thought he was going to…I don’t know, turn her across his knee or throw her down and do her right there in the center of camp.”

“I can honestly say I didn’t see any of that. He was just really angry—”

“They act like they’re still lovers.”

“Now that’s an exaggeration. They’ve barely exchanged a word in a month—ever since Sarah announced she was leaving.”

“Let me ask you—do you know what the opposite of love is?” Aideen continued to look in the direction where Mike had disappeared.

Fiona frowned and then shrugged. “Hate?”

“You’d think so, wouldn’t you? But it’s indifference. Trust me, Fi. Mike is not indifferent to Sarah Woodson. Not at all. Not even a little bit. Did you see how she got him so riled up? People who don’t matter to you can’t do that to you.” She shook her head sadly. “I’d love to have that kind of effect on him.”

“Well, Sarah is a strong woman, and she’s brutally stubborn,” Fiona admitted. “I personally have wanted to whack her with a crop between the eyes on more than one occasion.”

“Except that is not what it looked like Mike wanted to do to her.”

“Best not to let your imagination get carried away. She’ll be gone soon.”

“Will she?” Aideen glanced again in the direction that Mike had gone. “Seeing them fight was worse than seeing them kiss. It was just so…intimate.”

“Well, Mike has a temper on him and you’re best knowing that going in.” Fiona put her arm around her. “Come on, Aideen. You and I are going to be sisters, and what with Papin staying and both of us expecting at the same time, I’m going to need all the help I can get from my new sister.”

Aideen took a deep breath and shook off the emotions as best she could.

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