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‘What about this?’ Robbie pulled a dress from a rail, and held it up to show Katie. She looked at the label. ‘It’s a hundred and twenty pounds.’ Robbie…
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Katie flicked through the dresses hanging in her wardrobe. Her birthday was going to be an event, according to Maeve. What did you wear to an event? Sh…
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‘You could ask him for me,’ Katie risked saying. Robbie was getting dressed, while she lay in bed. She’d told him how she wanted to hold her birthday p…
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‘What’s your star sign, Robbie?’ Tamsin was one of the new waitresses Mateo had hired for the summer. She was a foot taller than Katie, blonde and beau…
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‘Come,’ Maeve said, ‘come and see.’ She beckoned Mateo, and he got up from his desk and followed her. Her heels click-clacked on the restaurant’s tile …
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‘What?’ Andy sprung to his feet. ‘I had sex with Colin.’ ‘Are you kidding?’ ‘No, I’m not kidding,’ Erin said, shaking her head. ‘I had sex with Colin.’…
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The bed was rumpled, sheets loose at the corners. Katie’s pillow was on the floor. Robbie had come home with her after work, and they’d barely slept. T…
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It was five o’clock on a Friday, and Aidan was drunk. He’d left work early to go for a drink with some colleagues, and he’d drunk faster than was sensi…
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‘I’m sorry,’ Maeve purred. ‘I was unkind. Has Daniella forgiven you?’ ‘No,’ Mateo said into the phone. He could feel Maeve smile. ‘Please tell her agai…
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Erin watched at the window. She couldn’t stop fidgeting. Andy had taken the twins for the weekend, and was due to bring them back any minute. It was th…
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‘So you’re the new assistant manager, I hear,’ Robbie said. Katie had come in to the kitchen to find out what the day’s specials were. They were alone …
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Andy was gone. Alistair’s interruption had taken the heat out of the fight, and he’d left, with a hastily packed bag, soon after. Erin had checked on t…
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