Chapter 41

• I barely noticed the girls checking their watches and preparing to leave. I must’ve been half-dazed for the rest of our catch-up. We did air kisses, same as usual, and I didn’t even bother downing the rest of my coffee before I gathered my coat up, ready to go.
• I was at the front doorway when Harriet grabbed my arm. I leaped out of my skin, eyes opening wide on hers on instinct as she pulled her usual confused face, trying to make sense of just what the hell was going on with me.
• “Come for a walk around the grounds?” she asked, and the flare-up in my stomach was a fresh quest for cocaine, but I managed to contain myself enough to resist snorting a line at the Regent Club on a Monday lunchtime.