The Imperfection of Us by Alexander Nick

Author:Alexander, Nick
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781805080015
Publisher: Storm Publishing
Published: 2023-07-21T00:00:00+00:00

We walked to the seafront – it wasn’t far – and then continued on along the coast. I checked my phone a few times and when there was still no news from Rob half an hour later I suggested we turn back. ‘If he’s still with them we can wait in that cafe we saw,’ I suggested.

‘Sure,’ Lucy said. ‘I’m starting to get hungry anyway.’

We’d walked in near silence until that moment, both lost, I think, in our thoughts. But as we started to head back, Lucy asked, ‘What do you think happened, Mum? Or do you secretly know?’

‘I don’t,’ I told her. ‘I really don’t.’

‘But you must have an idea,’ she said. ‘You must have a theory after all these years.’

‘Only I don’t, really,’ I said. ‘Rob’s never given me any clues. As you know he really doesn’t like to talk about them. But I think it must have been quite bad.’

‘Yeah,’ Lucy said. ‘I was thinking maybe…’

I braced myself because I thought she was about to put words to something so awful that I’d never even allowed myself to think it in any coherent way.

Instead she said, ‘… never mind. I really don’t know,’ and I was happy to leave it at that.

‘I’m not sure I even want to know, if I’m honest,’ I told her. It was an attempt at closing the conversation.

‘No,’ Lucy agreed. ‘Just seeing them was bad enough. They were creepy. I know that sounds nasty and they’re my grandparents and everything, but didn’t you think they were creepy?’

‘Maybe,’ I said. ‘Maybe a bit.’

‘Dad said not to come,’ Lucy said. ‘Now I’m thinking he was right.’

‘At least you’ve seen them,’ I said.

‘That’s kind of my point,’ Lucy said. ‘I’m wishing that I hadn’t.’

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