Chapter 8
My dad arrives about halfway through lunch. I’ve been sitting in the waiting room outside Broadhead’s office for about twenty minutes by then. The secretary, Jess, has been watching me like a hawk the whole time so I couldn’t check my phone even though it vibrated something like four times. Jess warned me that they’d called my parents and that my dad was coming on his lunch break to collect me. I couldn’t understand why I was being collected at all, but I didn’t question her because she was kind of intense and it felt like she was evaluating the way I was acting way too closely to just be a secretary. I mean, I’m not paranoid. Not really. Not even at the worst of times. But she was spooky, right?
Mr Broadhead emerges on cue as my dad pulls up in this beat-up work ute out the fr
