Chapter 6
The weekend with Adam never eventuated. It was three weeks now, since Jack had turned Clare’s life upside down, and there was still no sign of Taylor Brown. Jolly Jumbucks didn’t do weekends. They didn’t even do late nights. They closed, in fact, at six o’clock.
Jack hadn’t settled well into their kindergarten program. Despite the cheerful sign out the front, proclaiming the place to be A Worry Free Home Away From Home, Clare spent her workdays rigid with anxiety, fearing that every phone call might be from the dreaded centre manager. And unfortunately, a lot of them were. Jack was soiling himself. Jack had thrown yet another tantrum. Jack had hurled his food, and everybody else’s, at the Happy Elves ‒ the ridiculous name they gave the mostly teenage kindergarten assistants. Ja
