Ex, The by Moriarty Nicola

Author:Moriarty, Nicola
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2019-05-09T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

Georgia was stunned into silence. But then she composed herself and spoke again, keeping her voice gentle, her words careful. Remember who you’re dealing with here, Georgia. She’s clearly got issues. The best thing to do was to treat her like she was a child. Like a toddler who’d had her favourite toy taken away.

‘No, you and Luke broke up six months ago. Don’t worry, we didn’t get together until after that. You’d already split when I met him. But it’s definitely over between you. That’s why he moved out.’

Cadence took a step back away from Georgia. ‘Look, I don’t know who you are. But can you please stop saying that? That’s an awful thing to say. To come into my home and tell me my boyfriend isn’t my boyfriend. Why are you doing this?’

Georgia was completely bewildered. What was the point in Cadence playing this ridiculous game?

‘Why am I doing this? Oh, that’s bloody rich. Considering every little thing you’ve done to me. All the abusive notes. The emails, the Facebook messages. Jesus, Cadence, you broke into my home. And tell me something, if Luke is still your boyfriend, then why did he move out of here? Where did he go?’

‘Stop it! Stop making up all this weird horrible stuff! He hasn’t moved out! He took some of our stuff, yes, but that wasn’t because he moved out. That was because he’s getting our new place set up. He can’t have moved out, he was here this morning!’

Georgia started to back up herself now. Cadence was raising her voice and wringing her hands together. She looked like she was really panicking. And there was something else. Something about the way she spoke. She was so . . . emphatic.

Was she so deluded that she’d created an entirely different reality for herself? One in which she and Luke had never actually broken up. One that she really believed?

Georgia had to reconsider her game plan here. Maybe she’d done the wrong thing by coming. Maybe she should have trusted that the police would eventually sort all this out. It looked like Cadence needed professional help. She needed to see a doctor, a psychologist. And what about the tablets she mentioned before? The ones she claimed had messed her up in the lift that day? Maybe she was self-medicating. Georgia remembered the man at the hospital, the one with the knife who was experiencing drug-induced psychosis from being incorrectly medicated. And the violent woman who was suffering from hyperactive delirium. People can find extraordinary strength when they’re not themselves.

Georgia shouldn’t be here.

Cadence might be dangerous.

As if on cue, Cadence lunged at her. She put her hands on Georgia’s shoulders and started shoving and shoving her towards the door.

‘GET OUT!’ she screamed, ‘Get out, get out, get out. Leave me alone you horrible, evil woman. Leave me the hell alone.’

Georgia didn’t fight back. She was too stunned. She allowed herself to be pushed backwards until she’d stumbled right out into the hallway, and next thing the door had been slammed in her face.

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