Innocence
“Tomorrow Jay is going to be discharged from hospital, and Dad wants me to help him settle back home on the boat. My paid stay at the hotel runs out after tonight, and if I don’t stay with Dad, I have no idea where I will go. But too much has happened for me to go back home, and with Jay, I couldn’t take the difference.
Once we’re off the motorway, I open the window, sensing the air has changed, summer has gone, and all that is left is her unsettled wake. The trees are still green, but the f...ruit all fallen, the fields waterlogged and muddy, the air cooling without the summery warmth—an autumn without the dying.
With every hour Malachi seems to grow as anxious as I am about what we’re going to find in Oxford. I can feel the tension radiating off him the same way the air pressure drops with an approaching storm. It’s in the fixed way he’s holding his head, his arms locked at the wheel as he drives, muscles trembling.MoreLess
Once we’re off the motorway, I open the window, sensing the air has changed, summer has gone, and all that is left is her unsettled wake. The trees are still green, but the f...ruit all fallen, the fields waterlogged and muddy, the air cooling without the summery warmth—an autumn without the dying.
With every hour Malachi seems to grow as anxious as I am about what we’re going to find in Oxford. I can feel the tension radiating off him the same way the air pressure drops with an approaching storm. It’s in the fixed way he’s holding his head, his arms locked at the wheel as he drives, muscles trembling.MoreLess
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