‘In fact, death warmed up would look like it had been given a Boots’ makeover standing next to you.’‘Cheers,’ Bonnie grunted as she took her coat off.‘Bad weekend?’‘Try bad life.’‘It can’t be that serious?’Bonnie sighed. It wasn’t, not really. Her mum was practically giving her a house and Holden...
It was distressing to see him looking so vulnerable again after all this time. She was reminded of times when he had arrived back from school and cried himself to sleep over some bullying incident as Jasmine tried desperately to comfort him; and of the day they had learned of their parents’ death...
It made a pretty dismal sight. Hannah put it on the coffee table and stared at it. ‘Well,’ Gina said, ‘she’s given us some corkers over the years but this one really takes the biscuit.’ ‘This one takes the whole tin,’ Hannah said. ‘It takes the McVities factory,’ Jess put in. She started to giggl...