CHAPTER 27 On a Saturday night in late November, Suse had joined Jonah for his Christmas party. He had tried to drag me along, saying that the company’s younger employees – many of them single - usually found the event boring. I declined, having no interest in meeting his colleagues any more than I had in meeting other men. After a long shower, I had gotten into my pyjamas and was preparing for my last weekend off before the Christmas rush. I had curled up on the couch to watch one of my favourite films – Chocolat – with a large box of chocolates; it’s impossible to watch a film about chocolate without consuming some. I also needed chocolate for stress relief. This Christmas was going to be exceptionally busy since we had lost Kevin after he graduated and got work in his own area of inte

