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Before I could ask him what he meant by that, he released me and turned around, leaving me to stand here and watch him walk down the path that would take him home to Greygarth House.
I wrapped my arms around my waist, hugging myself, and drew in a deep breath that I slowly blew out through pursed lips.
“Right now, Ellie, you are the only thing I’m sure of.”
His words echoed in my mind, and I fisted my t-shirt where I had my arms crossing over my body. If I’d written them, I’d know exactly what they meant.
But I hadn’t written them.
I’d heard them.
And I…
Well, bugger.
I didn’t know what they meant at all.
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
ELLIE
Just Another Day
The glaringly harsh sound of a call coming through my laptop made me pause and look up at the screen right as Alexis Rose proclaimed her iconic line of, “Ew, David!” on the TV.
Meg’s name was flashing on my laptop screen with the request for a video call, and it was the last thing I wanted to do right now. I wanted to stay here, painting my toenails in my little hole of melancholy and guilt.
Unfortunately, I knew my best friend better than that.
With a groan, I leant forwards and tapped the green button to start the call. “Hey. What’s up?”
“I figured it out!” Meg’s face was terrifyingly large on the screen. “I know how Rose and Yvonne are connected!”
I blinked, doing a double take. “Can you sit back? You just put the fear of God in me appearing on the screen like that.”
“Sorry.” Meg moved away from the camera. “I figured it out!”
“I got that.Whatyou figured out is what I want to know.”
“How they’re related.”
I paused, almost letting nail polish drop in a big pink gloop from the brush onto the carpet before I quickly put the brush back in the bottle and secured it, instead leaving my right foot half unpainted. “Yvonne and Rose?”
“No, Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men,” she snarked, grinning. “I found out this afternoon.”
I held out my hands. “Well?”
“Rose is married to Yvonne’s nephew.”
My eyebrows shot up.
“Yup. It’s her sister’s son Rose married, too, so they’re super close. And that’s not all.” She leant even closer to the camera until her face filled the screen once again.
It was a whole lot scarier with her wide eyes gazing into my soul, let me tell you.
“Well?” I asked after a moment when she didn’t speak.
“Hang on. I’m screen sharing.”
