Thirty
“Put it to the test. See how long it is before anyone remembers to give you a call. I dare you.”
Zelda sighed. Her ex was right, in a way, but he wasn’t going to scare her off. It was a Grand Experiment. It may be a house in the middle of nowhere, she reflected, but I’m not the only one in it. And my friends are bad at ringing me here, in Melbourne. They were bad at ringing me on my birthday and completely forgot me when I was in the US. And it’s a house and there is my dream.
“You don’t have to dare me. I’ve already agreed to go. That’s why you’re driving me to the f*****g station.”
“Don’t remind me,” he grumbled.
“I just did.”
He laughed. “It’s not the way to finish a book.”
“Nor is staying here and waking up every morning convinced I’m a failure.”
It took him a moment to
