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Chapters (70)
  1. COVER PAGE
  2. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  3. DEDICATION
  4. PROLOGUE
  5. PART I BIRTH
  6. ONE
  7. TWO
  8. THREE
  9. FOUR
  10. FIVE
  11. SIX
  12. SEVEN
  13. EIGHT
  14. NINE
  15. TEN
  16. ELEVEN
  17. TWELVE
  18. THIRTEEN
  19. FOURTEEN
  20. FIFTEEN
  21. PART II LIFE
  22. SIXTEEN
  23. SEVENTEEN
  24. EIGHTEEN
  25. NINETEEN
  26. TWENTY
  27. TWENTY-ONE
  28. TWENTY-TWO
  29. TWENTY-THREE
  30. TWENTY-FOUR
  31. TWENTY-FIVE
  32. TWENTY-SIX
  33. TWENTY-SEVEN
  34. TWENTY-EIGHT
  35. TWENTY-NINE
  36. THIRTY
  37. THIRTY-ONE
  38. THIRTY-TWO
  39. THIRTY-THREE
  40. THIRTY-FOUR
  41. PART III DEATH
  42. THIRTY-FIVE
  43. THIRTY-SIX
  44. THIRTY-SEVEN
  45. THIRTY-EIGHT
  46. THIRTY-NINE
  47. FORTY
  48. FORTY-ONE
  49. FORTY-TWO
  50. FORTY-THREE
  51. FORTY-FOUR
  52. FORTY-FIVE
  53. FORTY-SIX
  54. FORTY-SEVEN
  55. FORTY-EIGHT
  56. FORTY-NINE
  57. FIFTY
  58. FIFTY-ONE
  59. FIFTY-TWO
  60. FIFTY-THREE
  61. FIFTY-FOUR
  62. FIFTY-FIVE
  63. FIFTY-SIX
  64. FIFTY-SEVEN
  65. FIFTY-EIGHT
  66. FIFTY-NINE
  67. SIXTY
  68. EPILOGUE
  69. AUTHOR’S NOTE
  70. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

‘I’ve no idea,’ I say, for the first time looking the Joker directly in the eye. ‘I don’t speak Latin.’

Then I walk out the door.

FIFTY-EIGHT

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‘Kitty! Wait!’

I ignore Nicole as we walk down the corridor towards the exit. I stupidly told her something in confidence and she betrayed me to the one person whom she knows I despise.

‘Kitty!’

I turn around.

‘Listen, I’m sorry,’ she says. She sounds upset.

Sorry doesn’t really cut it, but I pause anyway.

‘You don’t understand,’ she pleads. ‘After we had that conversation, and you were so upset, I finally rang Wolfgang—talking about him made me want to make things better between the two of us.’

I wait.

‘And then he told me how well the two of you get along,’ she says, straight out. ‘That you’re so smart and how he wishes when he was in Sydney doing work with Jack that you’d become friends then. And I just felt so jealous—of your friendship, of everything …’ She trails off.

I don’t know how to respond. I just stare at her.

‘I was so angry,’ she says honestly, ‘that when I ran into you know who, and he was mouthing off about you and Rachel, I just blurted out that you were having an affair with the boss.’

I roll my eyes. ‘It was one bloody kiss, hardly an affair. Exaggeration much?’

‘It was stupid. I’m really sorry.’

I wonder how much of it is a genuine apology and how much is trying to save her own arse, but I’m too tired and too over it to care, so I tell her not to worry about it.

‘Maybe we can have a drink after work some time?’ she suggests.

I nod as we walk away, but I doubt it. There’s one person whom I want to have a drink with, to whom I actually owe a whole lot of drinks, and that’s Max.

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‘What I want to know,’ I say as we sit down at the pub on the corner together over two glasses of the house white, ‘is did you realise that I was there too?’

Max shakes his head. ‘As soon as she walked out I couldn’t hear anything else. I had no freaking idea you’d heard him as well! I would have told you ages ago if I’d known that … I can’t believe you didn’t tell me either!’

‘I just can’t believe we didn’t tell each other any of this,’ I repeat, shaking my head in disbelief. ‘Like, we live together. We’re best mates!’