Chapter Forty-Four
Gloria picked up a piece of lamb chop with her fork. She cast her gaze over the table. The food was going down well. Conversation was a little slow, but not too awkward. It could all have been so much worse. But it wasn’t.
“I hear you want to go to Australia,” Ash said to Sally.
Gloria didn’t know why she’d mentioned that to Ash earlier. But she and Ash were together now. They were a couple. At least she thought they were. They’d expressed their feelings for each other. Ash had told her she was in love with her and Gloria had, soon after, realised she felt exactly the same about Ash. They were telling people. Ash was having lunch with her and her daughters. Of course she was her partner. They were together. Ash and Gloria. It still sounded strange to Gloria, yet it fe
