“The weather wasn’t helping much, with sudden violent downpours pelting the landscape followed by an atmosphere that felt even more belligerently stifling than before. Rick was behaving oddly too, calling randomly with nothing particular to say other than to tell her about an amusing incident at the office, or what he thought of something in the news. He’d never done that before, so Charlotte couldn’t think why he was doing it now.‘Anything exciting going down your end?’ he’d asked a couple of t...imes, tossing it in like an afterthought, while managing to land her with the feeling that he was expecting more of an answer than she could give.‘Not especially,’ she’d tell him, since she couldn’t imagine he’d be interested to hear that she’d covered for the receptionist at Dr Polly’s surgery, as the children called it, on Tuesday. She didn’t mention anything about Polly chasing her up for Chloe’s medical records either, because why would he want to know about that?MoreLessRead More Read Less
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