They met Kevin and Harry outside the wedding shop.
Yazid and Kevin went way back—sort of. They’d met in the children’s home in Bradford when they were teenagers. Kevin had later gone into a foster care placement in Nottingham, and for a while, they’d lost touch. But when Yazid had been diagnosed with cancer, word had somehow gotten round to Kevin, and he had shown up at the hospital, all tattoos and a red beard that made him look like a Viking. He had been a godsend to a shattered Yazid and an exhausted Ali, and when the remission diagnosis had finally come, Ali hadn’t hesitated in packing up their things and moving down to Nottingham to be closer to some actual friends, and as far away from Tony as possible without totally isolating a still-recovering Yazid.
Ali had been a bit wary of K
