How's the Pain? by Pascal Garnier

How's the Pain? by Pascal Garnier

Author:Pascal Garnier [Garnier, Pascal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781908313300
Publisher: Gallic Books
Published: 2012-06-11T00:00:00+00:00


He had barely made it into the caravan when Bernard and Fiona heard him coughing and throwing up in the bathroom.

‘Do you think it was my mussels?’

‘No, they’re lovely. It’s him – he’s not well, your Monsieur Marechall.’

‘What’s wrong with him?’

‘Death, that’s his disease. You can see it on his face and it’s nothing new. That man has never had feelings for anyone.’

‘I think you’re wrong there. I think he likes me a lot.’

‘Maybe … Maybe he loved someone once but she turned him down and he never got over it. Watch out. A drowning man never wants to go down alone.’

The sea and the sky, vying with each other in their vastness, traded handfuls of stars.

‘I’m a bit chilly. Violette’s asleep; I think I’ll head indoors.’

‘I’ll walk you back.’

A few TVs still hummed, but most had been turned off. With the little girl in his arms, Bernard felt he could go anywhere, do anything. He took strength from the warm, squidgy human ball of dough he held against him – and the sight of Fiona’s moonlike buttocks strutting in her tight white shorts.

‘You can come in if you want.’

‘That would be nice, but I can’t. It’s not that I don’t want to, it’s just I’m a bit worried about Monsieur Marechall. He might need me. See you tomorrow then?’

‘See you tomorrow.’

Fiona’s lips …



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