NUTS!
Moira crept round the shops, hiding her bruises behind
her hair. Derek had ordered macadamia nut ice-cream – where on earth did he
imagine she’d find that?
After an increasingly frantic search she tracked some
down in the deli, and finished her shopping. At home she added a few more nuts
and made a curry – he liked it hot enough to sear his taste-buds.
When Derek collapsed, gasping for his Epipen, Moira
slipped along the back lane to throw the tub in a skip before calling an
ambulance.
It arrived far too late, of course, but that was
hardly her fault.
