The Exes by Jane Lythell

Author:Jane Lythell [Lythell, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloodhound Books

Chapter Twenty-Six

PENUMBRA HOUSE

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Holly sees Ray standing on the front path smoking a roll-up. He is surveying the house. She still regrets their run-in, isn’t sure he has completely forgiven her yet and joins him outside.

‘Penny for your thoughts,’ she says.

‘Some of the brickwork needs repointing. See those patches under the ground floor windows.’

‘Let’s do it.’

‘The brickwork is worth looking after.’

‘The façade is fine, isn’t it? I don’t like how the name looks though.’

Several houses in the road have their names painted in gold on the fanlight, and these look elegant. The letters here are painted thickly and ‘P e n u m b r a’ is inscribed in a semi-circle above the word ‘H o u s e’. It isn’t elegant at all. It is just emphatic.

Ray shrugs. ‘It’s only a name, Hol.’

‘I don’t like the way the letters are painted so thickly in black.’

He glances at her, and she guesses he’s struggling to understand why she finds this a problem. She recalls his comment that he is no interior designer. ‘If we scraped the black paint off and repainted in gold letters it would look nicer.’

‘We can, but that will have to wait.’

‘Of course, not a problem, just a thought,’ she says.

Ray is key to achieving the renovation and she very much wants them to be friends again.

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