The Bee Sting: a Novel by Paul Murray

Author:Paul Murray
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Back in the house she shouts up the stairs for Cass but there is no answer nor when she knocks on her door So she rings her Are you here she says

Obviously I’m here Cass says

In the house I mean says Imelda

I’m in Elaine’s Cass says

Oh Imelda says Starts to ask if she’s coming back for lunch but Cass interrupts her Mam I’m in the middle of something I’ll call you later okay bye

Okay bye she returns but Cass is already gone She calls Dickie Ah no we’re grand here he says Are you not hungry she says I could take you down a sandwich That’s great love thanks I brought something with me Oh she says For PJ too? Yes he says For Victor too? Yes he says Oh she says Okay so I’ll see you at dinner time so

Ends the call Stares for a moment at the phone in her hand

While the house spick and span after her deep clean extends around her white and gleaming in the summer light like an Arctic glacier the kind you see on a nature programme with a polar bear trudging through it a tiny dot of white on the white They are all starving the bears PJ told her Starving to death

It must be hard for you to understand how lonely a person can be in a marriage

Feeling like it doesn’t matter whether you sit or stand Come or go Live or die It will all disappear in the silence a tiny speck of white on white Bouncing off the walls like an echo of yourself

Big Mike All this time Who would ever have guessed she thinks Who would ever

And now the doorbell rings

Her heart pounds From nowhere it pounds like it’ll knock right through her chest

And as she walks up the hall it pitches her left and right so hard that she can barely keep her feet

She gulps She walks She thinks Don’t let it be him Don’t let it be him

Is it him Is it him

She opens the door

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