One Last Letter from Greece by Emma Cowell

Author:Emma Cowell [Cowell, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2022-04-19T12:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Dragging a comb through my wet hair, I catch Tasha up on the weirdo outside the house last night and the latest developments in my search for Mum’s painting.

‘You didn’t see their face at all? So horrible that someone would be lurking outside.’

‘It could just be some random and I’m reading too much into it. It was dark and I’d had a couple of drinks …’

‘Maybe you are overthinking it. Don’t give it energy, Soph. Just think about today and meeting the guy about Mumma Lyns’ painting.’

Theo dropped me off this morning so I could get ready for our excursion. He will be back soon with Christoph and Zino to collect me. Although Tasha tells me not to worry about the stranger on the beach, I’m unable to dispel my fears entirely. Especially since I can’t seem to get myself together this morning, still shaky, feeling violated by whomever was lurking outside last night. The threat of someone following me or us, watching from the shadows, has displaced the safety I’d found in Theo’s arms just hours earlier.

I’m also nervous about my meeting with Tony Giovinazzi in Kalamáta, but at least I can play at being tourist with the boys afterwards. I then tell Tasha about Theo’s tattoo. Her jaw drops and she shrieks.

‘What?! Let me get this clear … he has on his skin, written in permanent ink, a barely known poem that was the last thing your mum ever wrote to you?’

I nod, remembering my reaction.

‘Soph, that’s the freakiest thing I’ve ever heard. How can it not mean something? Sorry, I’m not being helpful, but that’s blown my mind!’

‘Well, whatever it means, I’m trying not to take it too seriously.’ I shiver as I think about the poem written in Mum’s hand. ‘Don’t! It still gives me chills. But from now on, I promise to be rational and let my head, not my heart, rule, as you always tell me. At least I’ve learned something on my daft quest out here.’

Although after last night, I can’t deny the strong feelings lurking, though I am trying to prevent them from attaching to Theo. But I know they are and I daren’t say it out loud to Tasha. Her injection buzzer sounds.

‘Saved by the bell! Stay there, I’m not finished with you yet. You can watch me do this while we chat.’

She takes her iPad into the bathroom with her, propping it against the taps so I can see. Unwrapping a sterile syringe, she fills it from a vial of liquid.

‘Right, you choose – thigh or tummy?’

‘Jesus, you’re giving me this to decide?’

‘We’re doing this together and you’re going to live through this with us! So, which is it?’

She waggles the needle at me. I don’t know how she does this twice a day.

‘In my completely uninformed opinion, I’d say tummy.’

She lifts up her top and pinching a small bit of skin, injects herself without a flinch. I’m cringing with squeamishness.

‘There, done! Didn’t even sting. Don’t forget, I’ve got

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