No Place Like You by Marnie St Clair

Author:Marnie St Clair
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises, Australia Pty Ltd

Chapter 12

Lily knew she’d hit her limit when the working day was over, and the committee members arrived one-by-one. Busy and relatively anonymous she could handle; intense interaction with a small group, one of whom was Josh’s mum, another of whom was an ex? No thanks. Not today.

‘I might take off now if you don’t mind,’ she said to Maureen, as everyone took their seats.

‘Of course not. You’re not looking well, Lily. Maybe you’ve caught the same thing Katie had,’ Maureen said.

Lily glanced in Katie’s direction, to find her huge hazel eyes fixed right on her. If Katie had been suffering a horrible case of Josh-itis on Monday, it was entirely possible they had the same thing.

‘I’ve been telling her to go home all day, but she wouldn’t listen,’ Maureen announced to the table.

Because it was much better being here than being at home and having nothing to do but mope around. Busy was good. Besides, at home she’d have to face Saxon. She hadn’t been able to this morning, so she was up and out of the house before dawn, in town way before the café opened, filling the intervening hours sitting in her car reading one of her new books. She didn’t have anything she could say to Saxon, and she didn’t want him to worry, or worse, feel like he had to go avenge her honour or something stupidly macho and unnecessary like that.

After all, she’d chosen to have sex with Josh. In fact, she’d pushed for it.

‘Before you go, there’s something we need to talk about …’

Maureen sounded serious. She looked serious. She took in the other faces around the table. Was it just her or did they all look strange? Anxious and tense, like what they had to discuss was terribly, terribly sombre.

All her insecurity came to the fore. They were about to tell her they’d found another venue for the ball. Or that they’d use Mirabook, but without any further involvement from her. They’d realised that after what’d happened on Monday with Katie and the coffee, they couldn’t work with her.

Trust Lily Schofield to cause problems. Trust Lily Schofield to stuff up a tight-knit, long-standing group within the space of a week.

Probably no one could even look at her without thinking of all the bad things she’d done.

Or something like that.

‘I’ve discussed it with Helen and Louise, Lily …’ Maureen went on.

It wasn’t fair. All she’d wanted was a chance to fit in. To be one of them. Right from day one, they’d decided she didn’t deserve that chance. She’d been patient, she’d been kind, she’d accepted anything they wanted to dish out, but it wasn’t getting her anywhere. Without her even knowing it, she’d done something wrong again. She was so sick of being wrong all the time, so sick of constantly seeking forgiveness for crimes she wasn’t even aware she was committing. It wasn’t fair, and she’d had enough. They might be about to evict her, but not before she had her chance to speak.

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