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aren’t a good mix and the singles get ground under. As for Steven, I’d put money on it he was a guy who knew when he saw a good thing, and that sooner or later he’d try to take control of the house. But I also noticed how Glea, after her initial displeasure, had got used to the idea pretty quickly and somehow I felt this had something to do with her and Flake and I wouldn’t have been a bit surprised to discover it kind of fitted in with her own intentions. She’d been married once and it hadn’t worked out but who was to say she wouldn’t be up for it again? A house of couples. It would have been infinitely worse for me than it had been up till then. Although Steven acted as though

he genuinely liked me I felt sure it was basically that I had been useful as a pawn in his game and that what he’d really wanted was to get a foothold in the house. Thankfully, I had my own plans and I saw this was the exact right moment to put them into effect. When I went up to bed that night I looked around the room and felt surprised somehow that it was so empty. Why, I don’t know, seeing as I was the one who had been assiduously emptying the place for the last few weeks. So I asked myself if I was feeling frightened at the prospect now so clearly before me. I had worked myself up to the moment of leaving but I had to look at the possibility I didn’t want to go after all. Most of that

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