‘Well, Neil was a dickhead, and it took me far too long to get rid of him.’ I took a bite of a chocolate biscuit.

‘But I don’t get it. If he was so bad, why did you stay with him for so long?’ It was a question I’d asked myself a thousand times. I swallowed the hard lump of biscuit.

‘I really don’t know. I mean, almost immediately there were all these alarm bells going off. And I kept dismissing them – time and again. I told myself it wasn’t weird that he wouldn’t meet my friends, or that he never wanted to go anywhere or do anything. You know, I realised after we broke up that I stopped travelling when I met him. He wouldn’t even go away for the weekend with me. That’s why this trip … well, it’s not just the chance to return to Greece. It’s more. I knew as soon as we broke up, I had to go somewhere – anywhere.’

I looked over at my sister, and she was nodding sympathetically like she got it. It felt great to be ‘got’.

‘Oh, and he hated it when something good happened to me.’ Cat’s brow furrowed, questioning me. ‘You know when I got promoted to head of department?’ She nodded. ‘Well, I told him, and he said – and I quote – “Well, thanks for rubbing it in. Right after I got passed over for that promotion. Now I feel like shit. Nice one, Sarah.”’

‘He did not!’

‘He bloody did. And even then, I didn’t end it.’

‘Jesus. So, who was this slapper he cheated with?’

‘A friend.’

‘Hardly,’ she scoffed. ‘Do I know her?’

‘No, she was a new friend – from yoga – or at least, I thought she was my friend.’

‘But, how did they meet?’

‘At my place, would you believe it? I’d invited her over for a barbecue and I didn’t think anything of them talking for most of the night. I was just happy he was finally meeting my friends. Apparently, it started right after that.’

‘How did you find out?’

‘Well, he started acting way weirder than usual, so I figured something was up. Then I did something I never thought I would do – something truly awful.’

‘What?’ I could see the suspense was killing her, but I had never revealed this detail to anyone before. I sucked in my breath through my teeth.

‘I still can’t believe I did this. I hacked into his email account.’

‘Oh my god! That’s brilliant. How?’ I laughed with relief, loving her for saying it was ‘brilliant’, rather than ‘stupid and illegal’.

‘Well, it wasn’t exactly hacking. I guessed his password, and I got in.’

‘Seriously?’

‘Yep. Second try. It was his footy team.’

‘What an idiot.’