Not My Brother's Keeper by Colette McCormick

Author:Colette McCormick
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Not My Brother’s Keeper
ISBN: 9781786156532
Publisher: Accent Press
Published: 2019-06-14T16:00:00+00:00

ROBERT

I spent my twenty third birthday alone in my flat and, as I sat there nursing a glass of single malt that I’d brought up from the bar, I had nothing else to do other than think about my previous birthday: the night Michelle had told me she was pregnant.

The following day it would be a year since I’d got in my car and driven away from everything and everyone that had ever meant anything to me. Did any of it mean anything to me now?

Of course it did. There were days when I could’ve killed for one of Mum’s steak and kidney pies, or gone for a pint with my dad even though he did go on a bit sometimes. I even missed my kid brother from time to time.

Tom was a good lad at heart, a bit like a puppy sometimes – you know, hanging around for any crumbs that you might throw him – but I liked him. Poor bugger had spent all of his life wanting to be me but I was willing to bet that wasn’t the case anymore. I thought he was probably the golden child now, the one that could do no wrong, the one that didn’t do a runner as soon as he got a lass in the family way.

I know that he had wanted to be me but, the ironic thing was that sometimes I wanted to be more like him. There was a reason that I’d asked him to keep a look out for Michelle, and that was because I knew that he would. I was willing to bet that he was the best uncle a kid ever had.

I drained the best part of half a bottle of whisky that evening and I don’t remember how I got to bed.

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