You Don't Even Feel It (A Story From the Dark Side) by Block Lawrence

Author:Block, Lawrence [Block, Lawrence]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Lawrence Block
Published: 2011-07-07T16:00:00+00:00

He was wearing khakis, she noted, and a shirt and tie, but he’d added a navy blazer with brass buttons, and brown loafers instead of his usual sneakers. He said, “Keisha, I don’t know what to say. I tried to see you, I don’t know how many times, but I was told you weren’t seeing anybody.”

“I had to be by myself.”

“Believe me,” he said, “I can understand that. I didn’t know whether it was everybody you weren’t seeing or if it was just me, and either way I could understand it. I left messages, I don’t even know if you got them, but I don’t blame you for not calling back.” He looked away. “I was going to write a letter, but what can you say in a letter? Far as that goes, what can you say in person? I’m glad you called me, and here I am, and I still don’t know what to say.”

“Come in, Marty.”

“Thank you. Keisha, I just feel so awful about the whole thing. I loved Darnell. It’s no exaggeration to say he was like a son to me.”

“Let me fix you a drink,” she said. “What can I get you?”

“Anything, it doesn’t matter. Whatever you’ve got.”

“Vodka?”

“Sure, if you’ve got it.”

She put him in the overstuffed chair in the living room, came back with his vodka and a Coke for herself. And sat down across from him and listened to him talk, or tried to look as though she was listening.

“Another drink, Marty?”

“I better not,” he said. “That one hit me kinda hard.” He yawned, covered his mouth with his hand. “Excuse me,” he said. “I feel a little sleepy all of a sudden.”

“Go ahead and close your eyes.”

“No, I’ll be fine. ‘Sfunny, vodka never hit me so sudden.”

He said something else, but she couldn’t make out the words. Then his eyes closed and he sagged in his chair.

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