MAE POVChristmas sure came early this year. I couldn’t believe my luck, gawping like a slack-jawed fool across the desk at Mr Douglas. I’d escaped. Avoided the impending doom and a desperate stint of job hunting in the new year. My dice with unemployment still had my nerves on fire, but the euphoria crashing in on top was intense enough to wash over the lot of it. Intense enough that I could have kissed him, deep and hard and breathlessly, in relief as much as adoration. I did nothing, of course, just stared at him from the key sitting on the desk between us, waiting for him to elaborate on what the hell is the very personal thing he was trying to ask me. Thank you, Lord, I’d already scored lucky enough for one day. I couldn’t even hope. Dared not hope. A date? Dinner? A trip round to his place for Netflix and turkey sandwiches? I was game for anything. Everything. “I’m away at my brother’s place for Christmas,” he told me. “Londo
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