There's Blood on the Moon Tonight (129 page)

             
“It didn’t matter.”

             
“You mean…it’s over?”

             
Josie looked ready to slug him. “You’re not listening, you feckin’ arse. It
never
began! It was
you
I made love to that night.
Not
Ralphie! It’s
always
been you. And later on tonight I’ll prove it to you for real.”

             
“You don’t have a thing to prove to me, Joe.”

             
Josie gave him an amused look. “Buddy boy, you just try and stop me. If this is to be a New World, then you’re me Adam and I’m your Eve. Right?” She laughed, and soon Bud was joining her. They smiled uneasily, not sure just how close to the truth that joke might prove to be.

Adam and Eve, indeed.

Josie wondered if she would ever have to tell Bud that the child growing within her womb was Ralph’s.

Maybe if enough time went by before she began to show, Bud might assume it was his.
For it might as well be!
Maybe this world really would be better than the one they’d left behind. A world worth living in. Maybe their child would never know the horrors that they had known.

Aye. And maybe we’ll all live happily ever—

“Josie?”

She looked at Bud. At the miserable expression on his face. Her heart climbed into her throat. “Yeah?”

“Is it true what you said?”

“What’s that, Buddy boy?”

“You know…that my impressions ‘
Suck Arse.’”

“Aye. They do, love. They really, really do.”

             
             
THE END

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