Chapter Sixty

Chapter 60.

‘Wouldn’t it just be cheaper to pay the rent until I get myself sorted out?

If you’re that worried about Toby being homeless?’

‘It isn’t just Toby, though. Is it?’

‘Nate n wouldn’t expect you to take care of Matty and Connie.’

‘He asked me to take care of you and Toby. It seems to me you’re all a

package and it really is easier to do it this way.’

It certainly would be no simple matter rehousing Matty…

‘But you could have just renewed the lease.’ She didn’t want him to

have bought the house, she discovered. That was too…personal.

‘That was my first thought,’ he said. ‘There’s no easy way to tell you

this, Mira, but your landlord gave Nate six months notice to quit four

months ago. You only had a couple of months before you’d have had to

move out.’

Surprisingly, she didn’t feel any huge sense of shock. The revelations of

the last week had taken her beyond any place where she could feel shocked.

Nate n had known he was on borrowed time, that there was nothing he

could do to