Too Close to Home by Finn Óg

Author:Finn Óg [Óg, Finn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-21T22:00:00+00:00

Sam didn’t know what to do. He debated whether Sinead might be more cross if he cast off and left, but she hadn’t said she wasn’t coming. The plan had been to leave at five o’clock and she hadn’t appeared. If she gets up and wants me to take her back, we’ll fight the tide and return, he thought. The option saddened him when he thought about it, so he stopped thinking about it and hoisted the mainsail.

Three hours later he was flagging. He’d watched Cushendall and the Glens of Antrim glow in the dawn then fall to the horizon as they pushed nautical miles under the waterline.

He’d not recognised the old couple or the younger man. They were geriatrics – the older couple, at least, yet there they were clearly being arrested in connection with the explosion. He checked his phone every few minutes that he had service to see if there were any news reports on the arrests, but it was still much too early for a solicitor to tip off a reporter. Eventually their identities would leak out, which might give him some time to try and repair the issue in front of him.

“Coffee?” Sinead was dressed, and apparently not surprised that they were offshore.

“Love one, please,” he said.

She nodded and disappeared again. A few minutes later he heard the whistle and prepared himself for whatever he was due. She came on deck and handed him his covered mug and took a sip from her own.

“How far have we gone?”

“Twenty miles-ish.”

“And how far is it to this wonderful restaurant?”

“Same again,” he said. “I was worried you might not want to go.”

“Were you really?” she said and looked straight at him.

“Yes.”

Then her face softened and something short of a smile crept in as she turned away. “I’d cross the Atlantic with you two,” she said, “never mind the Irish Sea.”

And then she was below, and soon there was the smell of rashers cooking and he was relieved he hadn’t told her they were actually crossing the North Channel.

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