Chapter 15 - 16 Hare-brained Idea
But instead of throwing a punch, Rhys took a deep breath and said, ‘We need to talk.’
I relaxed fractionally and plonked myself down on a bench in the waiting area. I wasn’t going anywhere till Aunt Louisa came out of surgery. If Rhys wanted to talk, he could crack on. I was fully prepared to ignore every syllable.
He sat next to me and lowered his voice. ‘I need you to... do something for me.’
I kept my eyes glued to the neon-red sign above the operating room door that screamed Surgery In Progress.
Rhys went on. ‘Look, I’m sorry I lost my temper that day and... hurt you. I apologise.’
I turned my head slowly, like I was checking if I’d just hallucinated him saying that.
Rhys Granger, apologising?
Was he ill?
Had the aliens finally replaced him with a half-decent human clone?
‘I’m sorry about how things turned out,’ he said. ‘I wish we could work something out. Mum was really upset when she found out we’d had a fight—’
‘We didn’t just have a fight, Rhys. We broke up.’ I cut in before he could romanticise it into a bloody rom-com misunderstanding.
He let out a heavy exhale. ‘Yeah, I know. But Mum doesn’t.’