Before leaving Jeffrey’s office, I lift a mirror to check and touch up my make-up. I don’t want it to look too obvious that I’ve been crying. I step into the hall and Jeffrey follows. As I can hear the television playing in the lounge, I expect to find everyone there. When I go in, I find Margaret draped across a couch, a paperback in her hand, paying scant attention to the news programme playing in the background. I look around but nobody else is there.
Hearing me enter the room, she closes her book and places it on the coffee table beside her. “Alesha’s off home. As she didn’t want to interrupt you, she asked me to say goodbye for her. The girls were saying how Jenny was planning to take you to the airport and thought if Alesha went home, she’d have a chance to catch up with her boyfrie
