Hidden Sin: Part 2 of 3: When the past comes back to haunt you. Julie Shaw
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Название: Hidden Sin: Part 2 of 3: When the past comes back to haunt you
Автор: Julie Shaw
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Биографии и Мемуары
isbn: 9780008228538
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‘Look, boy,’ Mo said, reaching out a manicured hand towards him but not touching him. ‘I’m not out to make trouble. I’m not out to make a cunt out of you, okay? I just wanted you to know. So you know. So you see where I’m coming from. Fuck, boy, I knew the very minute I first clocked you. Someone told me you were Christine’s and it was, like, whap!’ He clicked his fingers. ‘I’d have known even if they hadn’t. I’d have worked it out.’
Joey felt a sudden welling of emotion that he couldn’t put a name to. Just everything, he decided, just the whole fucking bigness of it all. He searched Mo’s face – not for meaning; Mo’s meaning couldn’t have been plainer – but for points of physical similarity; for landmarks he could recognise in the handsome, leonine face. Features that could be singled out and ticked off and counted. The same jawline, the same eyes, the same fucking smile, even. Why the fuck had he not noticed any of this before?
Oh, you are so your mother’s son! People said that to him often. Had done so all his life – oh, you’re the spit of your mam, Joey! Such a Parker! And all this despite the one glaring bloody fact that no Parker alive had ever had brown skin and a head of wayward curls. Despite? Or because of? That point hit him hard now. Just how hard everyone worked to try and help him forget the stark reality that he wasn’t just a Parker – he was something else too.
He was Mo’s. He shared half of his genes.
‘You need some time,’ Mo said, clearly interpreting his racing thoughts. ‘I get that, and I’m sorry to just lay it all on you like this. It’s a lot to swallow. But it’s a fact, and you needed to know the truth.’
Truth. Joey found himself jolted into a completely different mindset. Truth. And its opposite – lies. The lie he’d lived with all his life, more specifically.
The questions teeming in his mind became more and more urgent. ‘Why?’ Joey asked Mo, the polite coffee break now forgotten. ‘Why now? Why not fucking years ago?’ He paused, but not for long. ‘Why not back when I was a kid and didn’t know why my dad didn’t want me? Had disowned me. Why my mam wouldn’t tell me. Why I had a step-dad but –’ Another thought hit him hard. ‘Does my dad even know about this?’
Mo nodded. ‘Yes, he does. He’s always known, Joey. And listen’ – he raised his hands, the gold of his rings glinting – ‘I have no intention – none, okay – of trying to step in and mug Brian off. He’s always been your dad, and from what I’ve seen so far, it seems like he’s made a great job of it, too. No matter about our past.’ What past? Joey filed the thought away. ‘I have respect for him for that. Big respect,’ Mo continued. ‘And, you know, you and me are both men now; we don’t need to have that kind of relationship. Just a kinship. If that’s what you want, of course. You might not. And in answer to your question, I never thought I’d see you again, and that’s the truth of it. And I can’t make up for all those years. Fuck me – I’d never attempt to even try. I just hoped – and I still hope – that once we became friends, we might stay that way, you know? Which is why I had to tell you the truth. Friends don’t lie to each other, do they? I didn’t want to deceive you for any longer than I had to.’
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