In Case You Missed It by Lindsey Kelk

Author:Lindsey Kelk [Kelk, Lindsey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780008236892
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2020-07-22T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

‘Anyway, it was completely insane,’ I told Patrick as I tore back up the motorway. ‘Wait until I tell you about the fish tank—’

‘I can’t talk right now but I can’t wait to hear about it,’ he replied, his voice crackling over the Bluetooth speaker in the car. ‘When am I seeing you?’

My eyebrows knitted together as I mentally checked the date. ‘Aren’t we having dinner tonight?’

‘Oh shit, we are,’ Patrick groaned. ‘I’m so sorry, I just this second said I’d meet my publisher. He wants to go over the chapters I was working on last week. Can I meet you after?’

‘After’s OK,’ I said, annoyed at myself for feeling so disappointed. The man had to work, didn’t he?

‘Could be quite late,’ he said, his warning softened with regret. ‘But you could stay at mine? Late supper with an early breakfast on the side? I am sorry, I clean forgot. This book is taking up so much brain space.’

‘It’s fine,’ I assured him, all the air going out of my day. ‘Don’t worry. And honestly, I don’t mind late. Maybe I can meet Sumi after work.’

‘Yes, why don’t you do that.’ He sounded relieved. ‘Just don’t tell her I fucked up again or she’ll be round to mine with the cheese grater.’

I laughed as we said goodbye and I put my foot down, undertaking an elderly lady in a Ford Fusion with a bumper sticker that read ‘Hot Rod Granny’. He was busy, it was all reasonable. So why was I so annoyed?

‘How did it go?’ Ted asked, jumping on me the moment I got back to the office. ‘Is everything OK? Did he agree on guests? Have you got anything I can give to the marketing team?’

‘It was good,’ I started. ‘I think—’

‘Great, choice, you write up the notes and send round a memo. We need to get things moving, Ros, moving and shaking and rocking and rolling.’

I was not the sort of person who would assume a co-worker was taking cocaine at work but if I were … Ted walked away, snapping his fingers and repeating the words ‘Snazzlechuff Says’ to himself over and over and over.

Grabbing a Diet Coke from the fridge, I looked back at the sunny, potentially class-A-riddled office and opened the door to the staircase. Time to return to where I belonged.

It was only Wednesday but I’d already spent every night since Sunday in my shed, all on my own. By the time I got home from work, I didn’t have the energy to talk to my parents and there was always the threat of a repeated sushi incident. Lucy wasn’t feeling up to coming into town and I wasn’t feeling up to crossing the length and breadth of London when I knew Creepy Dave would be there as well. Sumi kept cancelling on me and Patrick had his meeting. Which left my oldest, greatest, would-never-let-me-down, best-in-the-world friend, Adrian.

‘Can’t,’ he said from the screen of my phone. ‘Sorry.’

‘You’re sure?’ I pleaded, batting my eyelashes and puckering up my lips as Adrian reared away in mock disgust.

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