Chapter Ten
Back at home, Mia made herself a pot of tea and took it up to her office. She hadn’t seen Betty or Thomas since she’d returned from the pub, and James had likely already gone home, so she figured she could get in a few undisturbed hours of work.
She spent the time waiting for the computer to boot up having a long-overdue tidy up of her desk. She cleared away a bunch of documents, threw some scribbled notes she’d finished with into the recycling box she kept in a cupboard in her desk and put postage stamps on a stack of letters that needed to go out. It was only when the surface was relatively clear of clutter that her gaze fell on the bunch of flowers. s**t, the flowers! Things had been so hectic since Thomas had brought them to her that morning that she’d barely given them a
