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“Don’t patronise me,” she told him.
“I was agreeing with you.”
“Well, don’t.”
“You’d rather I disagreed with you?” he asked.
“I’d rather you stopped pretending,” Jade replied.
They lapsed into silence.
Jade stared out of the window and Rich turned his head to whisper to her over his shoulder.
“It’ll be OK,” he told her. “We’ll get through this; it won’t be so bad. I mean, what’s the worst that can happen? Apart from boarding school?”
“I just want Mum back,” Jade said, her eyes filling with tears once again.
Chance was fumbling in his pockets as he drove fast and confident down the outside lane. He pulled something out and Jade’s expression changed at once – first to surprise and then anger.
Chance was trying to shake a cigarette out of a packet. He caught a glimpse of Jade’s face in the rearview mirror.
“I’m gasping,” he told her.
Jade wiped her eyes and glared at him.
Chance put the packet back into his pocket.
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