Dead Romantic
“He felt challenged in every aspect of his life, and the knife gave him a kind of security.
His mind was more tangled than ever. There seemed to be so many new things to worry about that the space inside was crammed to bursting. There was the public shame of what Tony Ashton and Sharon were doing, and of what they must be saying about him. In the background was a dark cloud of anxiety about his mother, whom the hospital still wished to keep in for observation. And other, darker images fought their way through from time to time to the surface of his fears.
Increasingly, the only thought which gave him any peace was that of Madeleine. He kept reliving the moment when she had held his hand, when he had been so close to her, and it seemed that that was the only occasion in the past weeks when he had felt complete, when he had felt human, not swamped with threats from everything he saw around him. He ached for the moment of their next tutorial.
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