Chapter Twenty Seven: Committee Walden Grange Hotel, Outside Oxford. 14th February, 2014. Alina had never felt so nervous in her entire life – she couldn’t help wondering if she shouldn’t have screwed around in Linda’s life the way she had. She’d never seen Rachel so happy, and the fact that her friend wanted to keep the details of her relationship with Linda private spoke volumes to Alina – it really was serious. She’d deliberately skipped her Thursday kick boxing classes so as not to get in the way or be a distraction, but apparently Linda had already dropped hints that she’d like to go out on a double-date with “Alina and Charlie”. Rachel had been nagging her to come clean about who “Charlie” actually was, and thankfully had kept Alina’s secret this long. Well today would be the day