Chapter Thirteen
Abra’s attempt to get Mickey and Patrick Sean on the side of the dating agency idea had been doomed from the get-go, she told Rafferty when he got home. Mainly because both of Rafferty’s brothers were skint, and only too relieved to avoid funding Ma through God knew how many prospective swains at the dating agency. A piece of knock-off jewellery would be cheap at half the price in comparison, as they’d told her.
Abra wondered aloud if her flirting had been so subtle that they hadn’t even noticed it. Certainly, it hadn’t managed to persuade them to her, or rather, Rafferty’s, way of thinking. That wouldn’t have mattered so much if only Katy didn’t seem on the verge of changing her preference to jewellery.
So, even with Rafferty doing a volte-face, they could still be at
