Chapter Thirty
A few days after Austin and Jason leave, I make up my mind. I wrestled with it - vacillating between f**k-off and hell yeah. It’s only been through talking at night with the Emmaline of my dreams that I’ve been able to reconcile my Hulk Smash feelings with the pragmatism of a really good business decision staring me in the face. I call Austin and say yes.
I’ve come to another conclusion during the long, dark, lonely nights that I’ve spent talking to Emmaline on the ceiling. And that is, I’m not letting her go. Not entirely. I can only imagine the grief she’s dealing with right now, and I know her - she’s not meeting her girlfriends for coffee and a gossip. If anything, she’s going to be working her fingers to the bone fulfilling her Madame M orders, and designing her next
