The Wedding Party by Cohen Tammy

Author:Cohen, Tammy [Cohen, Tammy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Suspense, Thriller
ISBN: 9781473542662
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Published: 2021-06-23T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-four

Jess

Gabriel was starting to seriously freak Jess out. He was so vague about everything. She still had no clue what he really did for a living – though, to be fair, someone only had to mention the words ‘tech’ or ‘finance’ for her eyes to glaze over. Last night she’d heard him tell Cora he’d had a series of long-term girlfriends – ‘serial monogamy is my jam’. But she was sure he’d told her at the start that he never could seem to get the hang of making relationships last. Then there was that thing when her mum had tried to pin him down on which part of Sussex he’d lived in and he’d gone all weird and mumbly.

It wasn’t even the fact that he might turn out to be a pathological liar that got her, it was more about how he projected himself as being so wishy-washy and nothingy, as if you could put your hand straight through him, and yet she hadn’t forgotten that scene in the bathroom. The unexpected splinter of fear. Then there was the mystery of his having a different name on his passport. When her mum had first brought it up, Jess hadn’t even given it a second thought. Loads of people she knew called themselves different names to the ones they’d been given. Her non-binary friend Robyn had been born Esme, and another friend, who’d fallen out with her family, had changed her surname to Primrose, which was the road where she lived. But since Gabriel had shown himself to be so slippery, she’d started to wonder if he might have a more sinister motivation.

On the whole, she pretty much ignored him now, except if Gil was watching, when Jess would suddenly fake a deep interest in whatever Gabriel might be saying or doing and lean in to him, throwing her head back and roaring with laughter, whether or not he’d said anything particularly funny. He would sometimes try to talk to her, some boring comment on the weather, or come out with one of his cringeworthy expressions, like the other day, when he was just sitting there on the terrace with his mouth open and his eyes shut and she’d asked him what he was doing and he’d said, ‘Oh, just listening to the universe.’ She tried to be civil, at least. She did feel some sense of obligation for bringing him. But she’d never been good at hiding her feelings and, on the whole, the two of them gave each other a wide berth. If they’d been two circles in a Venn diagram, the only overlapping section would be the suite, and even there they avoided each other. Luckily, the bathroom had separate doors leading to the bedroom and the living room that could be locked from the inside, which Jess made sure she did. And yes, there were a couple of times she’d forgotten to unlock the other door, leaving Gabriel effectively locked out of the loo, and she’d felt bad about that.

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