Somewhere Only We Know by Erin Lawless

Author:Erin Lawless
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780007558322
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2015-05-05T15:50:22.690000+00:00

Nadia

Nadia planted her palms flat on her living room’s crumbling sill and hoisted her entire upper body out of the sash window, straining her eyes to see as far down the road as she could. Caro was by now twenty-five minutes late. Caro was never, ever late.

Swinging back inside again, Nadia swiped her phone from the top of the coffee table, tapping the call button impatiently to re-dial the last number in her history. Once again, Caro’s mobile rang out, proving only that she wasn’t trapped underground on the Tube with no signal. Nadia dropped her mobile phone to the table top again, half concerned and half annoyed. Caro had promised she’d be round before one o’clock – and that she’d bring lunch – and that the two of them would do some work on the basics of Nadia’s Indefinite Leave to Remain appeal. She was due to get her court date before too long and the whole thing was getting much harder to ignore.

Throwing herself down on the sofa with a sigh, Nadia pulled her laptop towards her. She might as well start reading the advice blogs without Caro, no point wasting any more time. But instead she found herself loading her Gmail and typing out a quick message to Alex.

She imagined him noticing the email notification sliding up in the corner of his screen and giving one of his unhurried smiles. She often amused herself by picturing him at his desk. He’d admitted the other day that he wore glasses at the office to reduce the strain on his eyes from the computer screen, which fitted in nicely with her whole Clark Kent/Superman opinion of the real Alex Bradley. At work he was the guy she’d met all those months ago; he probably had his hair super-tidy, his face cleanly shaven, glasses on, neat and prim in the sort of suit she now only saw him in if she was meeting him directly after work, a sensible half pint of chilled water from the cooler to the side of his keyboard…

Okay, so she knew she was picturing Alex’s office like something out of the fifties and she knew that he’d told her not to email him at work that often in case he got in trouble for personal correspondence, though he couldn’t be all that worried about it because he always immediately replied.

Nadia was so engrossed in their email conversation that she almost didn’t realise her mobile was ringing until the call had almost rung out. Letting her laptop slide from her legs she reached to grab her phone; Caro was calling back, at last.

“Hello?” she said, allowing her annoyance to be evident in her tone. “Are you okay? Caro, I swear to God…” Nadia trailed off as she realised that Caro wasn’t making excuses; in fact, Caro wasn’t saying anything at all. “Are you okay?” Nadia repeated. “Where are you?”

“Lavender Hill,” Caro admitted, in a small voice.

Realisation dawned. “Caro, are you with Monty?” Nadia asked, not really wanting to know the answer.

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