Chapter 90

• MARY-BETH
• I didn’t sleep well that first night at Alex’s apartment, but then, I never do when I’m somewhere new. The second night, I was awake again too, though – and that was annoying. Maddy was asleep, so I needed to be too. She would only go until three a.m. at the longest, and I needed to grab the rest where I could.
• I was also annoyed about Alex’s presumption. He hadn’t said anything about supervising building work on the phone. That made me pissed, because it was information I hadn’t been given, and not something I’d signed up for. I hated curve balls and surprises, apart from Maddy, of course. She was the single best surprise of my life, well, joint first with my seventh birthday, when my mom threw me a horseback riding party on the beach back in Cali. The staff from the nearby hotel had brought out a cake with my name on it. My full name - Mary-Beth Veronique Lisette (yes those are my middle names – mom had a thing for France) Holmes.