Page 54 of Hit For Six (Balls and Banter #1)

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE

Lola

Once Lola had insisted that she was okay and Joaquín had finally taken her word for it, leaving her to lap up some much needed Squiffy therapy, Fumiko had rushed through the front door with several cases.

‘Changed my flights and got an earlier one back. Got a date tonight with a hot chick at some place called The Bubble Bath. You heard of it?’

Hello to you too , thought Lola. She filled Fumiko in on the venue, glad of the distraction from the non-stop Monty messages pinging on her phone.

It was a small comfort to know that Saskia was on her side via her hiding place in the curtains but it didn’t change a thing, and neither did Monty’s insistence that he’d abandoned his family.

Nobody’s lovelife should be this difficult.

‘I don’t suppose you have any annual leave left?’ Fumiko cut through Lola’s thoughts.

‘I didn’t but now I most definitely do,’ she replied conclusively, ignoring the pang of her heart.

Lola mentally erased the image of her cheering Monty on as he hit a series of incredible sixes at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium.

‘Would you, by any chance, be able to take it as of tomorrow? My cousin’s got a bit of a cat astrophe on his hands.’