CHAPTER 101
“I was a scientist. A chemist like Phillip.” I miss you, Mr. Wall Tall Peterson. Miss you like a hole in my heart. A piece of me gone missing. That was perhaps the cruelest joke. Having Crazy Phillip back in his life, but only for one single, too-short night in his apartment. Jeff glanced at the rumpled armchair by the window, wishing desperately to see his old friend crashed out in it.
“We were chemistry-botany double majors actually. We were the only two on campus crazy enough to do that. I hadn’t planned on it, I’d started out in sociology or some silly thing. Your uncle had a way of persuading you.”
That prompted a ghost of a smile from Shelley. He remembered Shelley as such a smiling, happy girl. Somewhere she’d lost that. And he suspected that if he thought about it ha
