Chapters (48)
- Cover
- About the Author
- Dedication
- New Year’s Eve 2019
- New Year’s Day 2020
- New Year’s Eve 1989
- New Year’s Day 1990
- New Year’s Day 2020
- 1 January 2020
- New Year’s Eve 2015
- 2 January 2020
- New Year’s Eve 2015
- 2 January 2020
- 2 January 2020
- 5 January 2020
- New Year’s Eve 2010
- 6 January 2020
- 14 January 2020
- New Year’s Day 2001
- 15 January 2020
- 15 January 2020
- New Year’s Eve 2003
- 1 February 2020
- 1 February 2020
- New Year’s Eve 2007
- 3 February 2020
- 4 February 2020
- New Year’s Eve 2010
- 17 May 2020
- 17 May 2020
- 17 May 2020
- 13 June 2020
- 13 June 2020
- 21 June 2020
- 8 August 2020
- 9 August 2020
- New Year’s Eve 2003
- 15 August 2020
- New Year’s Eve 2019
- 13 September 2020
- 20 October 2020
- 25 October 2020
- 30 December 2020
- New Year’s Eve 2020
- New Year’s Eve 2020
- Acknowledgements
- Read More
- THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING
‘What would I be looking for? Bags of sawdust? A catalogue of calculators?’
‘Are there definitely no more clues – no membership cards, receipts?’
I lay everything out on the bed, looking for something I might have missed.
‘Dee, you’ll be pleased to know this guy keeps his dirty clothes and running gear in a separate plastic bag away from the rest of his things.’
‘Marry him,’ Dee laughs.
‘Could we research beehive sales? Find out who’s bought a beehive lately?’
‘Oh yes, I’ll just look up all the recent delivery addresses at Beehives.com,’ says Dee, and I can hear the eye-roll. Oh wow, even his jeans are perfect. Worn, but not too worn, stylish, but not overly so, they are that perfect dark blue indigo colour with … ‘Laura, online it says the airport doesn’t close until 9.30?’ Dee says, interrupting my thoughts about jeans.
‘The answerphone said they were closed.’
‘Try again, or maybe go back there if it’s not far. Just because you picked up this guy’s case, doesn’t mean he necessarily picked up yours. Yours could still be sitting there.’
‘OK, I’m on it, I’m going,’ I say, flinging Hot Suitcase Man’s possessions back into the case.
‘And Laura,’ says Dee, ‘don’t be nuts about this. It’s just a suitcase, you don’t know anything about this person.’
‘Yeah, I know. Thanks, Dee.’
Ha! Don’t know anything about this person? I know everything about this person. I know he’s reading my favourite book, and that he’s learning to play music by my favourite musician. I know he has the perfect-colour jeans, a sexy-smelling jumper, and a quaint little holiday cabin in the woods somewhere. Plus he buys lovely thoughtful gifts for his mother. What else do I need to know about the man?
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