Never Say Goodbye

Author:Susan Lewis [Lewis, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance, Contemporary Fiction, Literary, Contemporary, Literature & Fiction
ISBN: 9781780891750
Google: RcbEAgAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00FAXJJJA
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2014-02-13T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

‘WHAT THE HECK’S this when it’s at home?’ Jeff demanded, peering suspiciously into his mug.

‘It’s jasmine tea,’ Josie informed him. ‘I thought we’d try some for a change.’

He gawped at her incredulously. ‘What, did we win the lottery or something? How much did it cost?’

‘Not much more than our usual,’ she lied, since it was almost double the price for half the amount, ‘and I thought it would be nice to try something different for once. You always like it when we go to the Chinese.’

‘Yeah, but that’s there, where they don’t serve a proper cuppa. I don’t want it in my own home.’

Josie took a sip of hers and felt sorry it didn’t taste quite as good as when Bel Monkton had made it. Most likely Bel had had a better-quality brand, and maybe the size of the cups helped. Serving it in mugs wasn’t quite the same. ‘I bet you’d be loving it if Lily had made it,’ she declared, deciding she wouldn’t mind if he did.

‘Well, it’s the sort of crack-brained thing I’d expect from her, not from you.’

‘So you’re not going to drink it?’

‘I didn’t say that. There’s no point wasting it. I’m just saying, I like my normal brew, with milk.’

Josie twinkled. ‘You’re turning into a bit of an old stick in the mud,’ she teased, ‘but it’s part of why I love you.’

Rolling his eyes, he took a sip of the tea and put the mug down next to his phone. ‘Anything good on telly tonight?’ he asked, opening the paper.

This is your moment, Josie, come on, girl, get on with it. ‘I haven’t looked yet,’ she replied, managing to sound like her normal, unflapped self. It was nearly a week since she’d had the chat with Bel Monkton, and she still wasn’t any closer to finding the right words, if they even existed, and she wasn’t sure that they did. She could hardly just blurt it out, and beating around the bush would only end up confusing them both.

Actually, she’d almost got there yesterday, but the first time he’d been called out on a job, and the second time her mother had turned up unannounced wanting to celebrate her lottery win.

‘Come on, I’m treating you down the pub,’ Eileen had insisted, turfing Jeff out of his chair. ‘It’s only two hundred and forty quid, but it’s better than a slap round the face with a wet fish.’

‘You could put it towards a new washing machine,’ Josie reminded her.

‘Oh God, will you listen to her?’ Eileen groaned. ‘How did someone like me end up with a daughter as boring as her, that’s what I want to know.’

And how did that boring daughter end up with cancer when she’d never smoked a cigarette in her life, and hardly ever had a drink, that was what Josie would like to know. It didn’t seem very fair, did it, when she did her best to play by the rules and people like her mother never did?

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