The point is you get to feel better while he gets to feel like shit.’ It made a kind of perverse sense. Why should James escape without any punishment for his crime? OK, so losing both of the women he professed to love might hurt him a little but she doubted now that he would care for long. He clearly had no respect, no real feelings for either of them. He'd just find another woman — maybe even two — to fall for his stories. The question was, what form the punishment should take.Natasha's suggestions all seemed to involve some form of physical violence so, for the first time, Stephanie decided to ignore her friend's advice and work this one out for herself. She dug her phone out of her bag. ‘I think we should meet,’ she said, when Katie answered.There was a moment's silence as Katie, on the other end of the line, took this in. ‘Really?’ she said, sounding nervous.‘I just think there are things we need to talk about and we should do that face to face. Besides, I'm curious.’Stephanie heard Katie's inhalation, could feel her weighing up the idea in her head.
