Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
“Never left the house. They’ve gone too.’ ‘Should I have stolen them?’ ‘Probably,’ said Leonard ruefully. ‘Oh. I never said that.’ I was scrubbing the skirting boards and talking to Leonard at the same time. I wasn’t making a particularly good job of either task. I’d been calling him everyday. I just didn’t believe there was nothing we could do. Well, there was, but it meant mounting an appeal and funding lawyers and, basically, we couldn’t win. My dad had bet all his money. And he’d lost. I...t hadn’t stopped Eck encouraging me, but throughout that long, dark winter, I just felt crappier every time the subject came up, as I boiled up noodles for the fourth time that week. I knew, at some point, I was going to have to go and find Gail. I was trying to put it off, like a smear test. But if there was anything left, anything at all, she’d know. Obviously I was putting it off because I didn’t want to see her. But also I was putting it off because she was the last ditch solution; the last chance saloon. So far, so not exactly jolly.MoreLess
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