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Down on the path, the lizard twitched and flipped over. The cat was watching them and didn’t see it.
Reece sighed. The lizard could make a run for it; he was trapped. “I don’t know what you want me to say.”
“Why did you have to break up?” said Gin.
“Because.” He sighed again and the cat put its paw on the lizard. Neev wrapped her arms and legs around him from the step above.
“If you say it’s complicated Neev will bite your ear,” said Gin.
Neev tried to get her mouth near his neck. “Which part about me being five times stronger than both of you on a sugar high don’t you get?”
Neev poked him in the eye.
“Jesus.” Both eyes went to water. “All right, all right. Audrey didn’t have a great family life. Her mother is a piece of work and her father didn’t bother to see her when she was sick and hasn’t spoken to her since Mia was born.”
“Wow, way go Audrey’s dad,” said Neev.
“She wanted to have a kid, but hadn’t met anyone she loved. She made a plan to have Mia with donor sperm.”
“Ew,” said Neev.
“Do you want to hear this or not?”
“She’ll be good. Go on,” said Gin.
“She convinced her uni friend Barrett to father Mia.”
“So they had sex?” Gin asked.
“They didn’t. They used a lab, doctors. Artificial insemination.”
“Ew!” said Neev. “What’s this got to do with why you broke up?”
“Everything. Audrey planned her life so she didn’t have to rely on anyone except her close friends like Les and her nanny.”
“You,” said Gin.
“Me.”
“But you fell in love,” she said.
“We did.”
“But it’s not her plan.”
“It’s not.”
“Oh.”
“But you can change her mind about that—make a new plan.”
The lizard made a run for it. The cat pounced, picked the lizard up in its mouth and carried it off into the dark edges of the garden.
“I thought I could, but Audrey found out about how I used to fight, how I hurt people and it frightened her. She remembered I didn’t fit in her plan.”
“A plan is more important than love?” said Neev. All the mucking about had dropped out of her.
“For Audrey it is.”
