The Life Machine: Book One of Alex & The Angel (Alex and the Angel 1) by Dave Pitt

Author:Dave Pitt [Pitt, Dave]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-11-15T16:00:00+00:00

On the other side of the city in hospital room 6c, Linda Webb was sitting next to Alex’s bed holding his hand. There was no doubting she still cared for him, only wanted the best for him, but goddamn it she wished the lazy sod would wake up already.

Gary Swann was stood by the window looking on watching a wife tending her sick husband. It should have been a beautiful moment but witnessing their intimacy he just felt guilt, something of a spare part, and thoroughly out of his comfort zone. The heavy bandaging over Alex’s amputation didn’t help the situation, the thought of the wound was particularly uncomfortable to focus on, and because of this Gary tried hard not to look but that was futile. The doctors had chopped the poor sods arm off and he stupidly thought of a hundred reasons why an amputation would be bad and only one where it might be seen as a positive

‘Hey he won’t weigh as much!’ Gary suddenly said with the words reaching Linda over Alex’s prone body.

Slowly she raised her head before giving him her greatest ever look of disbelief.’ ‘Really Gary, you think that comment is useful…?’

‘…It came out wrong. All I’m saying is that if he did worry about his weight…I mean I didn’t really know…I don’t really know him…I just think he probably won’t have to now…his weight you see…because he’s lost some...’ The words trailed off completely as it struck him how inappropriate his statement had been, and how he didn’t have the mental capacity or words to fix it because there were no positives he could find about the removed limb, so he made the wise decision to change the subject but only after inadvertently creating an armless elephant in the room. ‘…Do you want a coffee..?’ He didn’t want to be there anymore.

‘…Yes please...’ She lied.

Gary left and closed the door behind him with a fool’s relief and truly wishing he’d gone to work instead.

Linda listened to his heavy steps walk away down the corridor before speaking to her husband. It had felt wrong to talk to Alex with Gary looming over them because whatever happened between a man and wife was their business and no one else’s. ‘Sorry about Gary being here, we’re alone now. You won’t believe what happened to me yesterday. The boy who was there in the building when you fell came to see me and returned your wallet. He told me he’d stolen it off you and told me to tell you he was sorry. That’s crazy isn’t it?...there’s just no telling with some people…but now the news is starting to report him as some kind of psycho but I believe he has a genuine innocent side…he told me to tell you he was glad you hadn’t died...’

‘…No thanks to him!’ The deep male voice said and she turned to see Gary surprisingly returned to the room and listening to her from the open door.

‘I thought you were getting coffees!’ Linda felt embarrassed and snapped angrily at the interruption.

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