By the time the weekend arrived, Emilia was raw. Raw emotionally as well as physically. The meeting she had with Gerald still rattled her, something that she tried to rectify with some hard physical labor of training two horses for the rodeo shows. To top it all up, she had one of the most emotional calls with her friend Jean to date. At first, she had refused to answer it, fearing that Jean would hate her the same way that Jane did. But after some consideration and a little gentle push from Theodora she had finally picked up the phone and chatted to her friend. Apparently, Gladys could not keep the secret from Jean anymore since Emilia knew. She had told her everything to Jean. At the end of their conversation, the two best friends were in tears, trying to reassure each other that nothin
