My Fish Pond Has One Very Loyal Customer novel · Chapter 13 of 24
Chapter 13: The Pool at Night
The Binjiang youth pool was empty at eleven at night, and Meng Yuhe had the only key.
He sat on the edge of the deck in his coat and his shoes, with his feet a metre from the water.
The lights were off, except for the blue under the surface, and the sound filled the hall.
It was the filter, and the pump, and the slap of a wave against the gutter.
He had worn noise-cancelling headphones on this deck for three years.
Tonight they lay on the tile beside him, switched off.
He wanted to hear it.
He wanted to see how bad it was.
On Monday he would sit across a dinner table from the man who had paid for all of it.
He would be asked how he was sleeping.
His hands were shaking.
His chest was tight, in the place where the doctor said the scar was.
He kept his eyes open and looked at lane four.
He did not know how long he had been there when the side door banged.
"Yuhe?"
It was Lu Qing's voice, thin and out of breath, echoing under the roof.
Meng Yuhe did not turn.
"I told you not to come," he said.
"You texted me an address. That's not telling me not to come, that's an invitation with a sad face."
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of My Fish Pond Has One Very Loyal Customer are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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