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From: Jason Oliver
Date: 8 January 2020 9.24 p.m.
Subject: Re: Hello!
That doesn’t sound very healthy, little girl. It definitely doesn’t sound like you’re taking care of yourself at all!
Immediately, she went on the defensive. She was pathetic—she knew it—but she didn’t need that truth pointed out to her. She’d heard enough criticism to last her a lifetime.
She quickly typed out a reply:
To: Jason Oliver
From: Catherine Richardson
Date: 8 January 2020 9.27 p.m.
Subject:Re: Hello!
Yeah, well. I’m trying but it’s hard. Every day he swore at me. Told me I was crazy—a ‘psycho’ was the word he liked to use. A loser. A bitch. And lots of other delightful names like that. So I may as well make that be true, right?
Even as she sent it, she knew she was making a mistake. Why was she telling him that? She hadn’t spoken to the man in more than a decade and now here she was, pouring her heart out to him in an email already. What was wrong with her? Maybe Steve was right. Maybe shewascrazy.
His reply was almost instantaneous.
To: Catherine Richardson
From: Jason Oliver
Date: 8 January 2020 9.32 p.m.
Subject: Re: Hello!
I think we’re going to need to meet up. How do you feel about that?
It was his voice she heard in her head as she read his words. Sparks shot up her spine and her heart skipped a beat in a moment of shock. He wanted to meet her? Really? Even after everything she’d just told him?
Another email came through before she had a chance to reply.
To: Catherine Richardson
From: Jason Oliver
Date: 8 January 2020 9.33 p.m.
Subject:Re: Hello!
Because someone needs to set you on the straight and narrow and I can’t do that over email.
The sparks shooting up her spine were replaced with chills. Good chills. Not of dread, but anticipation. Shyly, she responded, her fingers trembling on the little phone keyboard.
To: Jason Oliver
From: Catherine Richardson
Date: 8 January 2020 9.37 p.m.
Subject:Re: Hello!
