Chapter 10Having risen early and gone for a long run along the river, Kael walked into the flat just as his mother was making tea and toast. In the kitchen he found Joe sitting at the table in his shirtsleeves while Sharon poured his tea.
Very cozy.
On the kitchen counter the television was switched on to a morning chat show that Kael had never seen. The woman, blonde and thin, was interviewing someone who it seemed was in a daytime soap opera. Kael hated the TV on in the background, filling his sensitive hearing with rubbish. He picked up the remote from the table and muted it. Joe, who had been watching it, threw him an irritated look, but his mum didn’t seem to notice.
“Sit down, love,” she said as she began to pour tea into a cup at the place she had already set for him.
Kael sat d
