'Hi handsome - got a minute?' It was Jessie.
'Look, sorry Jessie but I'm in no mood for any social chat right now...'
'Whoa! What's up?' But she already guessed. Because she knew.
He told her only brief details but that essentially, he and Eve 'were over'.
Which is exactly how Jessie planned it.
She had waited...and struck at just the right time. In her warped little mind, she believed that having been neglected, cast to one side by Mark as he had pursued her cousin, he would realize now what he had discarded and come back for her instead.
'Come over and talk – I have a sympathetic ear...and a bottle of plonk waiting to be opened. Come over tomorrow and tell me about it...I'm sure there must be a misunderstanding Mark, I mean – this is my nice cousin Eve you are talking about,' she v
