His Love Was My Poison novel · Chapter 38 of 48
Chapter 38: The Temp
Posy read the reply twice.
Then she put the phone face down on the table.
"She's never called me brilliant," she said. "It's always baby girl."
"She's pleased," I said.
"She's pleased because I'm easy."
Posy stood up.
"I'm going to eat cereal now, and nobody is allowed to be nice to me for ten minutes."
We let her have the ten minutes.
Micah poured the milk and kept his hands busy so he wouldn't hold her.
At two that night I sat alone at the kitchen table with the foot of paper.
I had a pot of tea I wasn't supposed to be drinking.
I read Jacqueline Boutwell's messages from the first one to the last.
It took three hours.
She was good at it.
She never asked for anything.
In March I found a page that made me stop.
Who works the sealing bench at the back, baby? Is he friendly? Does he eat lunch with you?
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