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To my fabulous female friends.

Contents

Cover

Praise

About the Author

Title Page

Copyright

Note to Readers

Dedication

Chapter 1: Jemima

Chapter 2: Meagan

Chapter 3: Simi

Chapter 4: Jemima

Chapter 5: Simi

Chapter 6: Meagan

Chapter 7: Jemima

Chapter 8: Meagan

Chapter 9: Jemima

Chapter 10: Simi

Chapter 11: Jemima

Chapter 12: Meagan

Chapter 13: Jemima

Chapter 14: Simi

Chapter 15: Meagan

Chapter 16: Jemima

Chapter 17: Simi

Chapter 18: Jemima

Chapter 19: Simi

Chapter 20: Meagan

Chapter 21: Jemima

Chapter 22: Meagan

Chapter 23: Simi

Chapter 24: Jemima

Chapter 25: Meagan

Chapter 26: Jemima

Chapter 27: Simi

Chapter 28: Meagan

Chapter 29: Jemima

Chapter 30: Meagan

Chapter 31: Simi

Chapter 32: Jemima

Chapter 33: Meagan

Chapter 34: Simi

Chapter 35: Jemima

Chapter 36: Meagan

Chapter 37: Simi

Chapter 38: Jemima

Chapter 39: Meagan

Chapter 40: Simi

Chapter 41: Jemima

Chapter 42: Meagan

Chapter 43: Simi

Chapter 44: Jemima

Chapter 45: Meagan

Chapter 46: Simi

Chapter 47: Jemima

Chapter 48: Simi

Chapter 49: Meagan

Chapter 50: Jemima

Epilogue: The girls

Acknowledgements

About the Publisher

Chapter 1

Jemima

Jemima had been staring at the same text for a good five minutes. ‘It’s me’, it read. Two innocent words that made her palms sweat like a politician turning in their expenses. Though her phone said the texter was UNKNOWN, they weren’t. That number had been seared into her memory from all the other ‘It’s me’s that had pinged, uninvited, into her inbox over the last two years. Just then, the three dots of doom began their ‘incoming text’ cancan.

Guess what?

Urgh. Jemima hated guessing because she hated surprises. Even fortune cookies gave her palpitations. Furthermore, this wasn’t any old ‘guess what?’ from any old number. This SMS projectile was from Miles, the ex that wouldn’t go away. Double urgh.

He was constantly showing up on her phone, even if it was just random ‘LOL’s on her Facebook posts. She’d deleted his name from her phone contacts ages ago. Perhaps it was time he got the chop on social media too, Jemima grizzled as she watched a stewardess move through the cabin serving pre-flight drinks.