Chapter Ten
AS RAFFERTY HAD ANTICIPATED, he woke with a sore head after his night out with Mickey. And as he gradually came to, a feeling of being hard-done-by also surfaced, as he remembered Abra’s failure to turn up the previous day. What was she playing at? He’d thought their reconciliation was all but in the bag. Now he didn’t know what to think.
As soon as he got up, in order to cure the hangover, he drank a pint of water and swallowed some painkillers. Still, he thought, as he headed for the shower, he and Mickey had had a good time the previous night. The film had been action-packed all through, and afterwards they'd bumped into some mutual friends in the pub. He'd had to take some joshing about his single state, but it had all been good-natured and he'd shrugged it off with a few
