Woken with a start by the sound of somebody knocking loudly on the front door the next morning, she groaned as she got up and shuffled her way into the hall. Her head was banging from all the wine she’d drunk, and she felt nauseous.‘Delivery for Mrs Ramírez,’ the delivery man told her when she opened the door an inch and squinted out at him through the crack. ‘Needs signing for.’Chantelle tutted when she heard that her mum was already calling herself by Miguel’s surname despite not yet being married. But she signed for the parcel and brought it in. She put it on the table and was about to go back to her bed, but hesitated when she heard a noise coming from Leon’s room. It sounded like he was crying, and she frowned. He hadn’t left his room in days apart from to go to the toilet or to get something to eat, and she’d been concerned when their paths had crossed to see that he had developed bags under his eyes. It was clear that something was bothering him, but he had flatly refused to talk to her when she had tried, so she’d been leaving him alone.
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