Chapter 13
In the morning, I woke with a start to the sound of king parrots prancing around on my roof. Mia came into my room, tentatively, as if checking first whether ‘that man’ was still there. My brain had already begun to churn, trying to scold me, to tell me what a fool I’d been, so I shut it off by jumping out of bed and getting her dressed, turning the music up loud while I prepared breakfast. It wasn’t until Mia and I were eating, and I was cutting up toast for her, that it suddenly hit me. No contraception.
I dropped the knife with a clatter. Surely even I couldn’t be that unlucky. It wasn’t anywhere near the danger time of the month.
No, I refused to do this to myself. Last night had been amazing, and I couldn’t bear for the ghosts of my past to crowd in and ruin it for me. I
