Chapter Seventeen
Monday afternoon, Kayla strode towards the parking lot with Red beside her. She stared at the ground, going over the scene with Karl, wondering if there’d been something she could have said different.
“Quit brooding. You’re annoying me,” Red muttered.
“Yeah well, I keep thinking I made an absolute mess of it.”
Red laughed. “You did. I think he’s going to hate you for life.”
“I didn’t exactly want to come out and tell him I’d picked someone else over him in the space of a couple of days. But he kept hassling me.”
“You have to at least give him top marks for persistence.” Red glanced around. “You know that Pallas girl.” Red waited for Kayla to nod before she continued. “What do you know about her? How long has Jeff known her? Where does she live? Has he been anywhere
