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Because you couldn’t stay.
“Jesus Christ, Nanny keeps calling. I can’t deal with her right now.”
Trembling violently, I focused on the sound of my heart hammering violently against my rib cage.
“Here. Give me the phone. I’ll talk to her, love.”
On the way, my body wouldn’t stop shaking.
“Alex. I need to get in contact with Alex. He’s in Belfast. He doesn’t know…”
As the memory of my brothers wailing continued to haunt me.
“I’ll do all of that for you.”
Her hand.
“And Mam’s sister, Alice, in Beara.”
Was it the one with her wedding ring?
Fuck, it was.
I’m sorry, Mam.
I’m so fucking sorry, Mam.
“Joey love, how do you feel about this?”
It was her left hand.
Was she wearing it?
“Is this something you’d be interested in trying?”
I couldn’t remember seeing it.
Fuck, she always wore that thing.
“He needs to go. He’ll die if he doesn’t get treatment, and I can’t lose another member of my family.”
Where did her ring go?
Did it melt into her skin?
“Joey love, can you hear us?”
I wasn’t entirely sure why she or any of the others were asking me questions.
I didn’t have words left in my head to answer them.
“Joey, sweetheart. Do you have your phone? I can call your girlfriend for you.”
“No,” I mumbled, body stiffening as her face broke through the darkness. The only face I’d been able to see since I was twelve.
Blond hair.
Green eyes.
