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“Ambulance. All of it.”
I studied my coffee and nodded my head.
“I miss the camaraderie. The friendships. I miss that.”
“Yeah. It’s like a family.”
I smiled. “A family with a black sense of humour.”
“There is that. Plus, they’ve never heard a rumour they didn’t like.”
I took a sip of my coffee.
“You wanna know the latest?” Steph asked.
“Sure,” I said, the coffee tasted bitter all of a sudden.
“It’s about you,” she said, and I lifted my eyes to her face.
“Yeah?” I murmured.
Steph leaned forward. “Everyone reckons you had an affair. That’s why you left Sean.”
“Do they?” I said.
“Yeah.” She studied me. “Did you?”
“Did I what?”
“Have an affair? I mean, why else would you leave him, right?”
“Why else,” I said, nodding my head.
And wondered when I had stopped being a friend and colleague, and become fodder for the Service grapevine.
