Let Me Live ch14
Summary of work: Aziraphale's life as Gabriel's downtrodden, sexually exploited servant is turned upside down when his boss comes home one evening with a temperamental, devastatingly attractive redhead...
“Why? Why do you come here every week? We all know you’re loaded. You could go anywhere, do anything! Why here, why us? Why do you give a shit?”
At the other end of the room, the kitchen doors burst open and trolleys laden with food were wheeled out while the waiting crowd cheered and whooped.
Devon and several of the others were still looking at him intently.
“Hnrgh. It’s a bit of a depressing story, to be honest. I… I basically started helping out here after I couldn’t help the one person I wanted to help more than anyone in the whole world. It’s not exactly ‘A Christmas Carol’.”
Devon made a gesture that he should continue. Maury waved a knitting needle at him in the style of one conducting an orchestra. Even Silent Bob, who had been staring meditatively at the ceiling during the entire conversation, now lowered his gaze and eyed Anthony with soulful curiosity.
This chap: T. CW/TW: homelessness, cancer
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