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Then Kent walks away. He can hear the approving sounds of the
old men talking to the boy then, patting him on the back.
“See?” One says. “You still got a job, kid. Don’t worry – in time, he’ll forgive ya.”
Kent pretends not to hear, but he’s glad he got the message across. He didn’t want the kid to think that he’s out of hot water
– not yet. But at least Jerome knows he’s not going to end up in a shallow grave by the road somewhere.
Not that Kent isn’t tempted. It’s just not worth the fuss.
Kent makes his way towards the back door, pausing next to the little window that overlooks the little patio, which stands helpfully
open. He glances out of it, seeing the shine of Fay’s red hair, hearing Daniel’s voice.
Then, Kent rests his back against the wall next to the window,
listening.
“I don’t know, Daniel,” Kent hears Fay say, and then to his surprise
he hears her sniff. “I just – I don’t know if I can do this.”
Kent blinks in surprise at the thickness of Fay’s voice, clearly
choked with tears. She had been a hellcat twenty minutes ago,
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laughing in his face, challenging him to watch her let other men
touch her.
And now she’s in tears?
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Kent hangs his head a little, shaking it. He does not understand
this girl.
“It’s okay, Fay,” Daniel says softly and Kent hears some
movement – perhaps Daniel taking the girl in his arms, comforting her. He grits his teeth to think of it.
“He just…he pisses me off, Daniel,” she says softly. “And then I say things I don’t mean – and I do things I’d never do, just because I know it pisses him off –”
Daniel laughs at her here, just a little, in a comforting way.
“Yeah, he has that effect on people,” Daniel says softly. “Though, I have to admit, you’re the only one I’ve ever seen respond like that. He has most people shaking in their boots –”
“Oh, I’ve got plenty of that going on too,” Fay says, and she laughs a little as well, sniffing again. “I just…I don’t know. Something comes over me.”
There’s a pause in conversation, and then Daniel presses her. “So, what are you going to do? What’s next?”
“What do you mean?” she asks.
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“Do you still want to…go? To run? Leave this life behind?”
Kent blinks, surprised. She was considering running?
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Foolish girl, he thinks. There was nowhere she would go that he wouldn’t find her. And the trouble she’d cause him as he hunted
her down – god damnit, he’d be livid-
But that. Kent checks himself, realizing that he’s growing angry again, that it is precisely this side of Fay that fills him with this kind of rage. When she’s unpredictable, and stupid, and follows what she wants instead of what he knows is good for her.
“I don’t know,” Fay says softly, distracting Kent from his thoughts and bringing him back to the conversation. “I don’t know…if there’s anything to run to,” she says, thoughtful.
Kent nods, agreeing.
“Not back home? Or to France, like we talked about?” Daniel
asks, curious.
“I just…” she says slowly. “I don’t know if that world exists for me anymore. Or, maybe it’s that the old Fay, the person I used to be? Who fit into that world? I’m not sure she exists anymore.”
“I’m sorry,” Daniel says, and Kent can hear the guilt in his son’s
words. “It’s all my fault.”
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