The Fifteenth Representative by Hilla Dagan

Author:Hilla Dagan [Dagan, Hilla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-05-22T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

I woke up sprawled on the couch at 05:28. I’d slept like the dead. Three-and-a-half hours of sleep had to do.

Timothy hadn’t called. I rang him again.

It always took him ages to pick up the phone. Well, he was one of the busiest people I’d ever met. What a pleasure. I wish I could work like that. I had long intervals between each act. With him, it was nonstop. What he finished with his eyes closed, I would never manage in a lifetime.

Okay, that was been five rings, already… I’d have to try again later.

Later is most often measured in ten minutes. I’ll call at six.

What time was it for him? Eleven PM… he was probably asleep already, but I didn’t give a fuck.

Timothy once told me he had this thing with a high-ranking air force officer in the American army. He’d always call without a bit of care for time differences.

On the general’s birthday, Timothy got all the guys together—and it was quite a few, since it had been a serious operation—and each one of us called him up to say happy birthday. The first one had called at two AM in the General’s local time, and the twentieth, at around six AM.

Timothy had also worked at different intervals—ones of twelve minutes between each. Honestly, there’d been more, but the Yank caught on, gave a harsh, Southern-accented curse, then hung up while saying something about not messing with Israelis.

He was right.

In my opinion, he particularly shouldn’t mess with any Israeli women. They always seem to believe that the sun rises and sets from between their legs.

I’ve met non-Israeli women. Liberally speaking, there’s no difference between them. It’s all the same. But those non-Israeli girls also don’t make such a big deal out everything like ours do.

Our girls are… are… well, first of all, they’re the most beautiful women in the world. By far. It’s that special mix—that spiciness that makes Israeli women who they are.

Army service, ten extra kilos right to their asses, then getting discharged…

It’s a rough county, what can I tell you.

It’s the best place on earth.

It’s not for nothing that we’re rated the first place in the world regarding how satisfied we are with the country we live in.

Israelis aren’t suckers, you know. So, if they say that Israel is the best place to be, that they’re happy and fully satisfied, then there’s nothing anyone can say.

First place, not second. Then, maybe I’d be open to discuss it. But you can’t argue with the first place. It’s golden. True gold. No one remembers or knows who Bar Cochva’s lieutenant was. Bar Cochva’s story—everyone knows about. He was a lion.

Timothy is a lion, too.

What the hell is up with him? I’ll try him again.

Timothy has aged quite a bit since that time in Sinai, but it doesn’t matter. He’s a lion, and as he grows older, he’s still a lion. He’s simply an older lion.

I’m pretty sure I’ll lose my mind if I don’t find out Noa is okay.

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