Underneath by Andie M. Long

Author:Andie M. Long [Long, Andie M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-09-29T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

I open the computer with my password and hand it to him. I walk away, open the back door and sit on the doorstep. I often come out here to think. I breathe in the cool, fresh air and listen to the sounds of traffic passing the busy parkway near the house. It was going to be such a nice evening.

Niall will find nothing of course, thanks to my fortuitous deleting. I had ensured all comments to Monique were deleted too, so all that remained was our usual chat about life in general with inane comments about shoes. If he came across some crass comment in there about himself, well it served him right for reading my private stuff.

For some reason, even though I know full well I kissed Seb, I am damn angry that Niall was so quick to think I would cheat on him. He didn’t trust me at all. My teeth are clenched and I feel the need to hit out at something. Over in the corner of the garden, behind the shed, is an old tin bath that we haven’t got around to taking to the tip. I stand up and walk over to the garage, unlock it, then heave the door open over my head and walk to Niall’s shelves where I grab a large hammer. I stride to the back of the garden and take great heaving swipes at the bath. It reverberates loudly, how I imagine standing next to a church bell would sound. The bath begins to dint and I feel my anger pouring out like an overflowing red hot bath. Bang. Bang. Bang.

Niall comes running out of the house and I notice his first thought is to look up at the neighbours’ windows to see if any of them are watching. All reason leaves me and I throw the hammer, watching as it sails through the shed window. The plastic cracks, and it leaves a gaping wound.

‘For God’s sake what are you doing?’ He yells as he runs up to me and grabs my arms.

‘What does it look like?’ Tears stream down my cheeks. I begin to smack my fists into his chest. ‘You think I’d have an affair? You’re a total bastard. I hate you.’

Niall wraps his arms around me so that mine are trapped and drags me into the house whilst I kick him in the shins the best I am able. ‘Stop it, Lauren. Calm down.’

‘Calm down?’ my voice gets even higher.

‘Think of Joe,’ says Niall. ‘He’s just asked what’s wrong with you. I’ve told him you’re sad and angry about something that’s happened with Monique.’

I am shaking, I take some deep breaths for he is right, I will be frightening Joe.

We are silent for minutes, each not knowing how to get past this.

‘How could a note do this to us? You didn’t believe me ... after all these years?’

‘Well, it wasn’t just that,’ Niall puts his hands in his pockets and shrugs his shoulders. ‘When Bettina came over with the kids the other night, she kind of warned me about him.

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