Chapter Two
Jaid laid down her cake fork. After the many courses of the meal, she hadn’t really wanted to eat a slice of cake with her coffee, but Greg had pressed it on her and she definitely wanted to stay with him and Steve. Besides, it was a rich, dark, fruitcake, something she wouldn’t normally eat, so pretty much a holiday treat to herself.
But now came the boring part of the event. Some people went home for a few hours’ nap, others slept where they dropped. Others again just talked and talked all night long. Her tiny, walk-up apartment was really a bit far for her to go home. She’d gone home last year but the alarm had woken her what seemed like only minutes after she’d gone to bed, which had left her feeling achy and lethargic. Now, if Steve and Greg were in her bed, that’d be di
