Chapter 22
I read it twice.
Then I looked up and around the arrivals hall, half expecting to see her somewhere, watching from behind a pillar or something equally dramatic.
She was not there, obviously.
A laugh came out of me that had very little humour in it, and then before I had even finished laughing my eyes were stinging and I pressed my fingers against them hard because I was not going to cry in an airport over my mother signing me up to run a company without telling me.
She knew exactly how much I hated this kind of thing, how much I had always pushed back against anything that came with that much responsibility and pressure and expectation.
I did not want to be in charge of anything. I just wanted to be a normal person for a while, and she had flown me across the world and h
