Sean was standing looking at her, a wry smile on his face. She tried to return it, but she was having trouble behaving like a normal, functioning human being. She had spent the night awake but pretending to be asleep. Terrified her world was going to come to an end and there was nothing she could do to stop it. She felt wired from lack of sleep and sheer panic. She tried not to let it show on her face. Tried to seem professional. ‘I was concentrating.’ ‘Yeah, right.’ ‘OK, I was napping. It’s been a long day.’ She hadn’t expected to see him today, had thought that as she was on a late shift he would have gone out before she arrived, and probably wouldn’t be back until after she left. She attempted to match his tone, to fall back into jokey friend mode. Tried to look as if everything was normal. ‘What are you doing, skiving off?’ He laughed. ‘I’m completely ready for the big opening tomorrow, so I thought I’d call it a day.
