I said, “I did read it.

Seven years late.”

And she said, “Yes. Well.”

And then she got out a folded piece of paper from her bag and put it on the table between us, and said: “Right.

Here’s how this is going to work.”

Part Fourteen: Jessi’s Terms

The folded paper was typed.

That is the first thing I noticed and it told me everything about how long she had been thinking about it.