Chapter Eight
The Glasgow Bus
When one door closes, get on a bus.
Lesley watched as Agnus prepared for her first meeting with the wonderful Catrina. Agnus’s change of heart was a hard blow . . . all the love she had given Agnus seemed tossed aside like a takeaway packet. Ignoring Agnus’s glee, Lesley retreated into her herself.
It hurt so much . . .
While Agnus left for her first meeting with Catrina and Deirdre left to work in her shop, Lesley remained at home packing her bags. She told herself she was only taking what she brought when she moved in and then, realising it had been over twenty years, burst into tears.
After using up half a roll of toilet paper to wipe her nose, Lesley pulled herself together. She slipped her “over-sixty free” bus pass into her back pocket and her chef
