Chapter 181: New CaseADRIANShe didn't tell me at the party what the case was. She sat down on a plastic chair with her hand on her stomach, and Ava brought her water, and she drank it and said she was fine. Too much noodle. Too much dancing. Too much everything. I knelt in front of her chair anyway."Do you want to go home?""Not yet." She smiled at me. A real one. "Eli's still dancing."He was. With Margaret now. Standing on her shoes. Margaret's hat had come off and she didn't seem to care. I stayed on the floor next to her chair until the colour came back into her face. She kept her hand where it was steadily for. A few minutes.We went home at midnight to her flat and not mine. It was not the big house with the east wing. Third floor. The lift was broken. We carried Eli up between us, asleep, one arm round each of our necks, his notebook squashed between him and my chest.We put him in his bed. The dinosaur nightlight. The right colour. He woke up
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