Each second seem to linger too long, and Richard began to feel tense and uneasy. Hindi bf Charlotte darling?’ He brushed the hair back from her ear. He walked his dog every morning, and cycled into town regularly to buy food or to work at his job at an accountancy. ‘I’m beginning to see why you still live here in the country when the rest of the world is in the 21st Century.’ Charlotte said as they walked, Bernie bounding forwards before them. ‘Are you sure you don’t want me to read you a story?’
Charlotte laughed. Open on his lap lay a large, leather-bound book, but he’d given up on even pretending to be able to focus over an hour ago. Maybe, he mused to himself, Maybe if I just try hard enough… Richard focused on the gentle arcs, back and forth, back and forth.
