Disturbing Ground
“It livened up a quiet evening, setting off burglar alarms, waiting for the flashing blue lights to sweep up the valley. The noise, the shouting. It staved off boredom.
Sitting inside her own car it was that very same boredom which compelled her to dial the police station on her mobile phone and ask for Alun. At least the hot, guilty embarrassment was better than the void which filled her life the moment she stepped outside her doctor’s role. At the same time she lectured herself sternly tha...t Alun was married now, with a child. She’d read both the announcements without emotion in the local paper a couple of years ago. A wife would naturally be suspicious of the motives of an old girlfriend, recently divorced, suddenly turned pally, who followed up a chance meeting with a phone call.
The answering voice was uncurious. “I’m sorry, Police Constable Alun Williams is not on duty today. Who is it speaking please? Perhaps I can take a message.”MoreLess
Sitting inside her own car it was that very same boredom which compelled her to dial the police station on her mobile phone and ask for Alun. At least the hot, guilty embarrassment was better than the void which filled her life the moment she stepped outside her doctor’s role. At the same time she lectured herself sternly tha...t Alun was married now, with a child. She’d read both the announcements without emotion in the local paper a couple of years ago. A wife would naturally be suspicious of the motives of an old girlfriend, recently divorced, suddenly turned pally, who followed up a chance meeting with a phone call.
The answering voice was uncurious. “I’m sorry, Police Constable Alun Williams is not on duty today. Who is it speaking please? Perhaps I can take a message.”MoreLess
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