The Last Hurrah: THE HOSPITAL IS HIS PLAYGROUND (DI Bethany Smith Book 10) by Emmy Ellis

Author:Emmy Ellis [Ellis, Emmy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

The Boy had to stop himself from scratching his arm. Vince had thrown some Savlon and a bandage at him after Edwina had poured the boiled water, and The Boy had managed to sort it all out by himself. He’d felt like a doctor, fixing a patient, and he wondered whether that was what he’d really be when he was older. Some sort of fluid had seeped through the bandage, reddish at first, then yellow, and it had dried, leaving the material all hard and uncomfortable.

He took the bandage off and stared at his arm. The skin had lifted, broken, and some underneath was pink and raw, all the way down his forearm at various points where she’d concentrated the pours on five sites. It hurt, itched even more now the air had got to it.

He went to the kitchen and filled the bowl with warm soapy water so he could clean up. There were a few bandages in rolled packages in the first-aid box, so he’d use one of those with more Savlon.

Edwina came in, and The Boy jumped, sploshing water on the draining board.

“What are you doing?” she asked.

“Cleaning my arm.” He held it up for her to see.

“That’s a bit of a mess, isn’t it. Good job it’s the summer holidays. No one needs to know you hurt yourself. Reckon that’ll scar.” She nodded at his arm. “So when you go back to school, you tell them you were being a kind, good boy and making your mum a cup of tea, and you spilt the water on yourself.”

He nodded.

“If you tell the truth, I’ll get John the policeman here to arrest you for lying.”

“You lie all the time,” he mumbled and faced the sink again.

“What was that?” She grabbed his shoulder and swung him around.

“I said I lie all the time.”

“Do you lie to me?” She dug her fingertips in his shoulder.

“No.”

“Do you lie to Trevor?” A harder dig.

“No.”

“Then you don’t lie all the time, do you, so that in itself is a lie.”

He shook his head, gazing up at her as she glared down at him. She reached across, out of his line of sight, then put that arm behind her back.

“What happens if you lie to me?” she asked.

“You’ll hurt me.”

“Yes, I’ll hurt you. But how will I hurt you?”

“By smacking me then putting me in the cupboard.”

“I just thought of a new way to hurt you.”

His knees buckled.

She brought her arm around, swiping her hand in front of his face. He waited for the sting of a punch, the crack of knuckles on bone, but only a strange, hot sensation crept along his cheek, a line of heat from a semi-sharp knife.

She stared at him. “Beautiful.” A pause. “Here’s a few more to match. And they’re going to scar, too.”

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