”Malise slipped a Beethoven quintet into the stereo. If they weren’t it didn’t matter anyway. I can’t bear it. he added to Billy, ‘so I’m relying on you to look after Fen and see she’s in her own bed and not Rupert’s by eleven o’clock.
He’d only asked to be able to have time to tell her he loved her, but now it wasn’t enough and didn’t make him feel any better. They did come after L, didn’t they? Oh God, the page was missing, No, it was the first number on the next page. In the lorry, Jake watched an Algerian schools programme on television, trying to steady his nerves, an , and skyscrapers glittering in the midday sun, and the great network of freeways superimposed like arteries.
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