Walsh Family 3 - Angels by Marian Keyes

Author:Marian Keyes
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780141928685
Publisher: Penguin Adult
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

24

The sunlit house was unexpectedly silent; Emily wasn’t home yet. She’d obviously got lucky also. For once, I didn’t mind being on my own, I didn’t mind at all, I was aglow – with my sore wrists and ankles and my stiff inner thighs, I’d never felt more alive. After a shower, where I looked in awe at the bite mark on my stomach, I drove to the beach to catch some rays. I liked this picture of myself. A convertible-driving independent woman, happy with my own company.

I’d only been stretched out for a few minutes when along came Rudy, laden down with ice-creams.

‘Where’d ya go? Been worried about ya,’ he said.

‘Busy week,’ I said. ‘Any tri-colour Klondikes?’

As I arranged myself and my ice-cream beneath the dazzling sun, a vision of a fresh start wound around me seductively. This place had everything: great weather; fantastic location; lovely people. I could put my disastrous life in Ireland behind me, begin again and, this time, get it right. After my time in Chicago, surely someone would employ me and sort out a green card for me – there must be thousands of jobs in the studios for people with legal experience.

Then I let the door open on a secret, exciting hope: maybe Troy would be part of my new life. I revelled in a happy idyll of me and him, laughing happily together. Strolling through a fruit and veg market – in films, people who’ve just got off with each other spend a lot of time wandering amongst fresh produce, and it’s always OK to stroke aubergines suggestively without a stallholder shouting, ‘Oi, no ‘andling the goods!’ Or for the man to pluck a juicy, red strawberry from a stand and feed it to the woman without getting arrested for theft.

I entertained myself thus for most of the afternoon, and it only came to an end when I had to go home because I was dying to go to the loo.

Back at the house, I raced to the bathroom and was surprised at the stinging sensation. Then I remembered what had caused it and suddenly it became pleasant. Oh yeah, of course…

Still no sign of Emily, but there was a message on the machine from her. She’d spent the day with Lou, they were going out again tonight, I wasn’t to expect her home. ‘Call me on the cellphone if you’ve any problems.’ As if it had just occurred to her, she added, ‘But maybe you’re not back either. I’ll try you at Troy’s.’

That was the only message. At least it was the only message for me. There were about ten thousand for Emily. Justin and Connie, someone called Lamorna, another person going by the name of Dirk.

It was then that the implications of Emily’s message began to filter through: I’d be spending the evening alone. That was OK, I could ring Claire – then I remembered I couldn’t because of the time difference. Fine, I could ring Rachel in New York, and afterwards I could compound my happy, independent-woman status by going to the movies on my own.

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