Gifted & Talented

Chapter 54

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In case you’re wondering, by then I had finally received Meredith’s text message, the one calling me a traitorous bitch, which did not make any sense to me at the time and which, given the euphoric second-chance fucking that soon preoccupied her mind, Meredith had forgotten about.

I didn’t text her back because by then Arthur had gotten a call from Gillian, and then I had to drive, and anyway, what do you say to that, really? By the time we both remembered she’d said it, we were locking eyes over the Wren family dinner table, one of us receiving some truly catastrophic news.