Chapter 12
12
MAY 2018, SUFFOLK, ENGLAND
‘Sorry I’m late, I had to go back for my notebook, just in case I miss anything.’ Kate feels a drop of sweat run down her back as Melissa Cox, pink and yellow and calm because she’s already been there for ten minutes, stirs her coffee.
‘Oh, don’t worry, I was just looking over my handover notes.’
Kate pulls up a chair in Jack she apologises to George if the veg is ever-so-slightly overdone. She even apologised to Jack’s friend Samuel’s mum when Samuel bit Jack in the back and left his dental imprint there for a week.
‘OK, I’ll try not to.’
Melissa’s phone rings and she quickly rejects the call. ‘Dave,’ she says with a sigh.
Kate knows Dave Cox left Melissa last year, but she doesn’t know why or how it happened. Genevieve Walton at Beavers said he’d run off with someone at work, but Kate doesn’t know Melissa well enough to ask what occurred; how long she had her suspicions; whether she saw it coming.
A young waiter comes to clear the table. ‘Can I just take your empty cups?’ he asks.
‘Sorry,’ says Kate as she leans back.