Page 131 of Shards of You and Me


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‘It’s only fornication if it’s with someone other than me,’ he says, lightening the mood.

I smile. ‘Is that right?’

‘Absolutely.’ He releases me. ‘You should’ve called. I would’ve picked you up.’

‘I needed the walk.’

His eyes move between mine. ‘No good with your mum?’

I shake my head.

‘Let’s get out of here,’ he says, looking both ways down the corridor.

‘But I haven’t seen your dad.’

He looks back at me. ‘Not even the doctors want to see him.’

I get it. Maggie’s funeral was yesterday, and many of them attended.

‘You forget that I was raised on a diet of forgiveness.’

‘Within a religion that shuns people who make mistakes?’

‘Exactly.’

He drapes an arm around my shoulders as we head off down the corridor. ‘Stay close, and watch out for J-dubs armed with garlic.’

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