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And she’d been right. It was good.
It was very good.
She was already buying it, before she’d even had chance to confirm.
Because it was very like Greg to just not say and hope she’d be okay with it.
And doubly so, when he was as panicked as he obviously had been.
Then Alfie added, almost as a little afterthought:
“And so fast that you left something behind.”
As he took what wasdefinitelyher phone out of his pocket.
Just like he had done on the way here, only very obviously not a threat now.
“Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh mygod,” she said. Because really, what else could she do? She had royally fucked all of this in about seventeen different ways. And top of the royal fucking list was absolutely the fact that she should never have thought he was showing herhisphone.
Because he’d already told her.
He had a flip one.
That she was guessing did not come in a case with donuts all over it.
“I did try to show you I had it,” he said as if she needed to hear anything more when this was already way too much. It made her just a little bit daft. And worse, she now had to explain exactly how daft she had been.
“I thought that was just an odd form of menacing me.”
“What? Like, let me follow and murder you or your phone gets it?”
“Well, not that exactly,” she said. Then couldn’t stomach the lie enough to let it stand. She had to just concede and take her lumps. “But maybe that, exactly.”
“Jesus. It’s not a baby, Mabel.”
“Even though I take it everywhere with me.”
“You take lots of things everywhere with you.”
“Yeah, but do I also gently cradle them while staring lovingly at their faces?”
“Oh my god, it’s a lump of plastic.” He snorted. “It does not have a face.”
“It does when Oscar Isaac is staring out at me.”
“He is not staring out at you. His image is.”
Lord, he was so practical about things.
So literal and straight down the line.
Like somebody’s grandad from a mining town where everybody was miserable, she thought. But weirdly, not in a way that felt mean. She didn’t hate that about him, apparently. Instead, she had the thought, and then got a little weird bloom of warmth through her.
As if she was starting tolikehim.
Which, all things considered, sounded like absolute nonsense.
So she shrugged it off, and kept going with whatever this was.
