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Paul whacked the squash ball against the wall. It bounced back, and he hit it again. He’d do another twenty minutes on his own, as his colleague had to leave early. Not that it mattered. He came for the workout, and they always reserved the court for a double session.
John had asked him to play soon after Paul’s separation from Wendy. It hadn’t taken him long to get the hang of the game. Without John, he could work on his weak points and figure out how hard he needed to hit the ball to get it to bounce off the back wall of the court and still hit the front wall. He swung and the ball fell short. Again. By the tenth time he was getting a fifty percent success rate. Not enough if he was to use the technique on John.
He and Rob had missed several weeks of their club but this week they’d
