She had told herself she wouldn’t but in the end she couldn’t help it. She killed the channel as soon as his win was confirmed.‘You should go to him, you know,’ advised Polly, curled up on the sofa with a tub of Ben & Jerry’s. ‘Tell him how you feel.’Once, Robin would have denied having any feelings whatsoever, habitually on the defence. Now, she didn’t bother. It was plain to see. She had even been honest enough with Steffen to give him the real reason when she had called it quits with him.Is it someone else?Yes.Are you with him?I should be.But she and Leon were torn, and even more so now he was officially the fastest man on Earth: the new world record holder, unreachable, immortal.She was happy for him. She was sad. It was confusing.The girls were recovering from the Beginnings tour, by all accounts an unqualified success, before the ETV Platinum Awards at the weekend. After that they would be returning to the UK. For Robin, it couldn’t come a moment too soon. She had plans to sell her flat, putting an end to the roller coaster of the past few months.
