He Called Me Son (The Blountmere Street Series Book 1) - Plot & Excerpts
‘Well, come in the two of you,’ Mum said. ‘Since when have you had to be invited?’ Lori coughed again, and she and Fred sidled to the table, where I was making a crane from my Meccano set and Angela was threading some beads she had got for her birthday on to a string. Although Mum indicated some chairs for them to sit on, they kept standing like the statues on Lori’s sideboard. ‘Is anything wrong?’ Mum asked, and Angela looked at me, putting her finger to her temple, winding it round and round, mouthing ‘They’ve gone nutty.’ ‘It’s … well …’ Fred began. ‘We wanted to …’ Lori stopped. ‘Spit it out,’ Mum said, while Angela continued her winding action. ‘With Eileen, Fred’s wife … um … ex wife having passed away practically a year ago.’ Lori did a couple more coughs before looking to Fred for help. ‘Perhaps we should have waited a little longer, but circumstances have precipitated things,’ Fred continued. I didn’t know what “precipitated”
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