Chapter Ten
Gloria always slept with her phone on her bedside cabinet. That’s how it was when you had children, even if they’d left the house. She woke early on Thursday morning, even though she was working the afternoon shift.
She reached for her phone and scrolled through the messages she’d exchanged with Ash last night. Now that she’d slept on it, it was quite clear that they had well and truly flirted. There were no two ways about it. They had flirted in the restaurant, continued furtively in the taxi, and not-so furtively in their texts to each other. Gloria was holding the evidence in her hand. If any of her friends showed her a text message thread like that, she would be the first to confirm that some heavy-duty flirting had happened.
Now that she was able to acknowledge this, Gl
