CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
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ALICE WAS SURPRISED to see Mary and Michael coming back from the pub, holding hands. The envy and surprise stole her breath. A tight knot chocked her throat. That wasn’t what she expected after the fights she’d heard from their house lately.
If she had been in Michael Reid’s place, she’d have thrown that bad woman out of the house on her ear. Alice wasted time with Mary now and then, but only because she didn’t have anything else to do. She didn’t have to live with her and bear her laziness and slutty behaviour.
Alice waited for them. When they got closer, Alice came out in the street as if she hadn’t seen them.
“Mary, hello,” she said loudly, pretending surprise. She wanted to be heard and interrupt the couple’s conversation. “I’m sorry. I didn’t
