The Inner Circle
Adele peered out of her front window. Yes, there they were again. Donna and Josie, linking arms and chatting away. Just a few short weeks ago, Adele would have been part of that conversation. But now, inexplicably, it seemed she was no longer in the inner circle. The two women had scaled back their invites for afternoon tea, their book club meetings weren’t so frequent, and Adele felt as though she was being deliberately excluded. And she had no idea why. There’d been no falling out, no cross words, nothing.
Adele decided she wasn’t going to take it any more. If she was going to be ignored and left out, she at least wanted to know why. She watched the pair head into Josie’s house across the street without so much as a glance in the direction of her house, then drew away
