Honour & Obey by Carol Hedges

Author:Carol Hedges
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Little G Books
Published: 2016-01-13T05:00:00+00:00

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Across London, Mrs Witchard’s lodger, having returned from the chemist and druggist and emptied a syringeful of reddish-brown liquid into his veins upon his return, now begins to stir. He opens his eyes to the sound of church bells, and a taste in his mouth as if he has been running. For a moment, he has no sense of place. The noise outside his window and the bed he lies upon mean nothing.

He blinks, and the world comes back.

There are shapes, patterns of light and dark, motion that corresponds to sounds arriving from outside. They knock at his door with luggage. Tendrils of memory drift through his gathering moments of consciousness. He pages backward, forward, back again, always chasing ghosts.

His nerves are pulled tight by too little sleep, and an oily slick of fear that clings to his skin. He never thought of himself as a good or a bad man. Nothing so simple. He was only ordinary. An ordinary man who just happened to fall for an extraordinary woman.

And now? This wasn’t the plan. His plan was better, it made sense. He has no idea what the sense of this is. The world has become frightening, impossible in its thinness. He struggles to raise himself in the frowzy unmade bed, but his head is spinning and he falls back on the pillow. He doesn’t want to think about anything. Just sleep. Sleep until eternity.

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