The Appointment by Dylan Young

Author:Dylan Young
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781912986651
Publisher: Bloodhound Books
Published: 2019-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE

Tuesday 28 August

On Tuesday morning, Dan is awake at 7am, his brain crystal clear and in overdrive after spending Sunday soul-searching and nursing a hangover, and Bank Holiday Monday in the garden. He has seen no sign of Kate. This morning, any residual sluggishness is dispelled by two coffees, and Saturday evening’s horror has faded to a glowing ember that stokes a simmering anger. How could he have been so totally bloody naive? With a surge of insight, he realises how vulnerable he’d made himself. He’d gone to the pub to think things through, but all he’d achieved was imbibing enough firewater to render himself incapable of anything more than a Neanderthal gut-reaction, which Bliss had plotted and executed with consummate ease.

He goes out to meet Roland when the young solicitor sounds his horn. Roland looks about fourteen years old, drives an uncomfortable blue Fiesta – badly – and is irrepressibly cheerful. Dan can’t quite decide which of these three things irritates him the most this morning. They’re at some lights when Dan’s simmering self-recrimination boils over. He slams the dashboard with the heel of his hand. When he looks up, Roland is staring across at him with large, quizzical eyes, and all Dan can do is shrug inanely and mumble, ‘Sorry.’

Dan’s Jag is behind a barrier at the police compound, safe and unscathed. Behind the wheel, memory of his crass handling of the situation cascades back with tooth-grinding vividness. He comforts himself with Middleton’s words. At least there was the Section 8 business. At least there was a way of getting William seen, despite all of Bliss’s vitriol. Clinging to that crumb of consolation, he drives to work.

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