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Authors: Demelza Carlton
She knew.
Dusk faded to darkness and still I stood, wishing, hoping, praying that she'd read the letter and return. She said she'd forgiven me!
Out of the darkness, I heard a live band in one of the nearby pubs start their first set, covering a Powderfinger song.
"Who's
gonna pick you up..."
Lifting her up when she was unconscious, on the beach, on the road outside the ambulance, in the hospital
...
Even now my arms felt empty without her.
"
... Who's gonna play your fool..."
Bloodied handprints on the quilt
... a silent scream... running.
NO. Don't think it.
"
... Who's gonna watch your back..."
Her pulling me down as the gunshot echoed in the dark night
...
She'd saved my life.
Oh God, she knew in the TV interview and she never said anything, either. Two weeks ago, with the police
... fuck! She was protecting me...
"
... Who's gonna be there at the end..."
End it.
Her whisper in the TV studio. Her lying on the beach, her eyes on me as she held a gun to her own head.
Agonising memory that haunted my nightmares. Who would be there to protect her if they found her? She'd turn the weapon on herself before she'd let them take her back...
"
... Who's gonna fall down at your..."
...
trying to help her... in hospital, on the beach, on the road by the ambulance as the blood pooled beneath her
...
"
... fall down at your..."
H
ere in the church... begging for her forgiveness... when I should have been begging her to stay with me.
"
... FALL DOWN at your feet?"
Did he have a fucking stutter?
On my knees on the dull grey concrete outside a church, I was angry at a stupid singer I couldn't even see.
The letter.
Fuck, the letter.
I staggered to my feet.
I had to find her.
I need
ed to know.
The nightmare may be over for Caitlin, but for Nathan it's just begun.
Awake or asleep – Nathan
's angel has the answers.
Caitlin will tell her own story in
Necessary Evil of Nathan Miller.
Demelza Carlton has always loved the ocean, but on her first snorkelling trip she found she was afraid of fish.
She has since swum with sea lions, sharks and sea cucumbers and stood on spray drenched cliffs over a seething sea as a seven-metre cyclonic swell surged in, shattering a shipwreck below.
Demelza now lives in Perth, Western Australia, the shark attack capital of the world.
The
Ocean’s Gift
series was her first foray into fiction, followed by the
Nightmares
trilogy.
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