CHAPTER 38 – MATTY
LONDON“Hi.”
“Hi. Come in.” She grinned at him and he instantly felt the muscles in his shoulders ease up. He noticed with surprise and relief that she looked, on the whole, quite normal. He’d been half-expecting her to have the washed-out look of somebody who had lain in bed crying for the past week.
“I’ve missed you,” she said eventually, “but not in the way that you’d think. In a good way.”
“In a good way?”
She gave him an awkward hug. Her arms felt cold to the touch.
“I’m sorry,” he mumbled and stood awkwardly beside her, neither of them wanting to make the first move from the corridor to the living room.
“What for? You didn’t do anything wrong. I mean, it’s not like you cheated or anything.” She let out a forced laugh.
“No, but I wasn’t…”
“We weren’t right,
