A Place of Safety
“She ran for the exit.Alexia smiled at the headline. It was fantastic copy. She would rather have sold it to a broadsheet, but in the end she had a choice between the Mail and the Express. They were the only two willing to stump up the money she’d promised Mark and pay a reasonable sum for the article. Her dad had always said you had to own the news, not write it, to make any cash.They’d fiddled with it a bit. Well, a lot. More emphasis had been put on the outrage of the false claim for asylum t...han she had originally intended, and the beating of Singh and Valentine had been reduced to two lines—but still.She opened her desk drawer and started to pack up her equipment. Steve hadn’t said a word but his face told the story.‘I had to do it,’ said Alexia. ‘It was too big for us. A story like that needs national coverage.’He didn’t speak, just handed her a cardboard box.She carefully placed her mug and pencils at the bottom.Why was she so sad? She’d always known she was too good for this place.MoreLess
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