“So, after ensuring he wasn’t being watched, he let himself into one of the last remaining working phone boxes in the whole of the United Kingdom and called her.‘Hello,’ she said.The stink of piss in the phone box was almost overwhelming, but the sound of her voice transported him home, and he bit back a surge of emotion.‘Lucy,’ he said.‘Oh, my God. Shelley, it’s you. Are you okay?’‘It’s Afghanistan without the IEDs.’‘That bad?’‘And worse without you or Frankie. How are you both?’‘I’m all right.... Daytime, I’m trying to keep the business ticking over. I think this is the first time I’ve ever been glad of the lack of business. Evenings, I’m dividing my time between bouts of worrying about you, Game of Thrones and Frankie.’He didn’t want to ask about the business. The sole upside of this whole venture was that he was temporarily released from worrying about the business. Then again, he realised with a jolt of shame, all that worry was now transferred to Lu.‘I’m sorry,’ he told her.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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