THE H-BOMB GIRL by Stephen Baxter

Author:Stephen Baxter [Baxter, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 2007-09-19T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Wednesday 24th October. 8 a.m.

I keep expecting Mort to just grab me, to drop the game-playing. He’s still holding off. How much longer?

Dad called this morning.

“It’s getting a lot harder to make these calls,” he said.

I could hear wind and birdsong. “Where are you?”

“In a phone box. I tiptoed out of the base. I told them I needed a packet of fags.”

“You’re giving up smoking.”

“They’ll see through that, then. Not much of a spy, am I? It’ll get better before it gets worse, Laura. The next few days are critical. In the crisis. Everything depends on how the Russians accept Kennedy’s blockade of their ships. And—” Beep beep beep. “Oh, damn—”

That was it.

Trust Dad not to have any coppers. No threepenny bit in his sock. He might win the Cold War but he’s not very smart sometimes.

I still don’t know what to tell him about Miss Wells, and Agatha. I haven’t even spoken to him properly about Mort.

It’s all about the Key. He gave it to me to make me feel safe, but it’s doing the opposite. A bit of me doesn’t want to tell him about any of that, doesn’t want to worry him.

Another bit wants to sit on his knee and curl up, as if I was five years old.

I wonder when I’ll speak to him again.

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