I had ten messages on my voicemail, more than half of which were from various women in my life: three from Sophie, all business calls except the last—she was curious as to where I’d been all day, and wondered who the lucky woman was. It seemed that it was my karma to attract jealous women, even my sister was possessive of me, and that’s one of the reasons Pearl appeared so different; she was vaguely aloof, even though I could tell she liked me. The next calls were from Laura, my ex, telling me that she would be coming to my house in Provence. I listened to the messages with half an ear, her Queen’s English more pronounced than ever. “Hi Alex, darling. Just to say that my plans have changed a bit. James doesn’t seem to want to come this year, so it’ll just be little old me. Is that okay? Of course it’s okay. But I’ll be really miffed if you’re not there at the same time. I mean, I’ll get bored all alone. Speak later, Alex, darling.”
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