A Home From Home by Veronica Henry

Author:Veronica Henry [Henry, Veronica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Orion
Published: 2019-06-25T18:30:00+00:00

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Georgia spent the rest of the day typing up the notes from the script meeting, flagging up any changes of location to the production team and notifying the casting director of new guest characters that would need finding. Running the scripts for a show was as much about logistics as creativity. You couldn’t make things up willy-nilly without telling people. You had to have an eagle eye and make sure the scripts kept to the schedule and the budget. It wasn’t just cutting to the chase and cliffhangers. She sent the notes off to all the writers on the team, then headed for the tube.

She was exhausted. She needed an early night. The emotion of the past few days was starting to take its toll, and she still hadn’t really had time to digest today’s work bombshell, let alone yesterday’s news of her being left a share of Dragonfly Farm. She had assumed Tabitha would get it, as she was almost the daughter – or granddaughter – that Gum and Joy had never had.

She shut the front door, kicked off her boots and left them at the end of the line of shoes in the hall. She lodged with a friend of her parents who had been loath to give up her beloved Islington house just because she was retiring, so she rented parts of it out to ‘like-mindeds’ to justify staying on. Georgia was up in the attic, where she had a big bedroom, a tiny shower room and a boxroom she used as a study. She was very happy there. The landlady didn’t mind what colour she painted the walls, or if she brought a friend or two back, and it meant there was usually someone in the kitchen when she went down to the basement to make herself something to eat, which was where she was heading now.

Tonight, though, the house was quiet. Georgia sat in the kitchen, waiting for the aubergine parmigiana she had bought from the deli on the way home to heat up. Her phone was on the table in front of her. She picked it up idly and sent a few texts. One to Tabitha, to check she was all right. One to her parents, to see if they were home yet. And one to Gabriel, to say sorry for leaving without saying goodbye. She had warmed to him, despite the circumstances. It seemed as if he was as surprised as they were by the contents of Gum’s will.

If she was honest, the news about the will had been slightly overshadowed by Martin’s offer to her. She was still dying to share her excitement with someone who would understand how important this was to her. There was really only one person. She looked at the time. It was just after lunch in LA. He was probably in a swanky restaurant somewhere. Or doing laps in his pool.

Her mental audience was screaming, No! Don’t do it! But she knew she was going to. She began to text:

Hey.

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