One Bad Thing by M.K. Hill

Author:M.K. Hill [Hill, M.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781788548373
Publisher: Head of Zeus

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It feels like Diane is finally getting the message and staying away, because for a few days she doesn’t try to contact me. She’s blocked on my phone and doesn’t come to the house. Thankfully, she doesn’t seem to be on social media either – of course I’ve looked – because I haven’t received a friend or message request.

But it’s difficult not to feel tense whenever I leave the house, particularly if I’m with Amber; I keep expecting Diane to come running around the corner towards me. It wouldn’t be the first time she’s appeared out of the blue, she turned up at the bar where I met Izzy, and has already admitted she was creeping around the restaurant when I met my parents – and look how that turned out.

But I keep Cameron up to date on everything, and we send each other messages several times a day. He’ll write:

Any sign of our ‘friend’? x

And I’ll reply:

Nope xx

Phew! Looks like we’re in the clear! xx

It’s sweet the way Cam implies that we’re both the target of Diane’s unwanted attention, that we’re in this together, when of course she still has no way of knowing how to contact him, even if she wants to; she doesn’t have his surname or address. She’s been tenacious in the way she’s stalked me, but I can’t imagine how she’d go about locating him.

Cam also makes a point of phoning every night when he’s on the way home from work, and we’ll talk for up to an hour.

He’ll ask me how I’m getting on with Siobhan, or about my appearance on Morning Brew next week; we had a good laugh when I told him about dressing up and posing for the show’s publicity shots.

‘Get you, you glamorous thing,’ he says.

He’s told me a lot about his work as a GP but I know hardly anything about his home life, except that he’s married to a woman called Penny who is sick, and to whom he is obviously devoted.

The awkward fact that I’m texting and calling a married man after I discovered my own husband has had an affair isn’t lost on me, but Cam assures me Penny understands that we’re old friends.

‘I’d love you to meet her,’ he tells me. ‘She tells me that I have to bring you round.’

‘I’d like that too.’

The reason Cam calls every night is that he knows how worried I am about Diane; but I’ve also come to look forward to our evening chats, and I’m always disappointed when I hear him park his car and turn off the engine.

‘I’m home now, so I’d better leave you alone,’ he’ll say, and I imagine him lifting his satchel from the passenger seat; the car door slams and he walks along the pavement to his house, where Penny waits inside. ‘I’ll call again tomorrow… if you want me to?’

‘Yeah,’ I tell him, as if he’s being kind and thoughtful, when really I’d like nothing more than for him to phone. ‘But only if you have time.

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