Chapter twenty-five
“Monique?”
“Hi honey. Will you let me in?” She stood there in front of me, as charming as ever in her Burberry coat with a leather belt tied at the waist. She took off the hat that flattened her magnificent dark hair. “Well? What are you waiting for?”
I pulled aside, almost tripping. She passed me with the haughty smile of someone who was granting me a favour. Her smile died when she saw the place in which I lived.
“Why did you leave a wonderful place like Midnight Rose to come to live in this dump?”
I felt like Alice in Wonderland. I was stunned and unable to return to reality. “Have you been to Midnight Rose?”
She tilted her head slightly. “Of course. I looked for you there first. A young man gave me this address.”
“Paul didn’t tell me anything,” I said, confus
