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Peppermint Tea

Ten minutes later she was sitting on her own with her brother in somet hing

called the ‘VIP Business Lounge’, which was just a small, airless room with
some chairs and a table offering a selection of today’s newspapers. A couple
of middle-aged men in suits were typing things into laptops.
By this point she had worked out that her brother was her manager. And
that he’d been her manager for seven years, since she’d given up professional

swimming.
‘Are you okay about all this?’ her brother asked, having just got two drinks
from the coffee machine. He tore a sachet to release a teabag. Peppermint.

He placed it into the cup of hot water he’d taken from the coffee machine.
en he handed it to Nora.
She had never drunk peppermint tea in her life. ‘ at’s for me? ’
‘Well, yeah. It was the only herbal they had.’
He had a coffee for himself that Nora secret ly craved. Maybe in this life

she didn’t drink caffeine.
Are you okay about all this?
‘Okay about all what?’ Nora wondered.

‘ e talk, today.’
‘Oh, um, yeah. How long is it again?’
‘Forty minutes.’
‘Sure.’
‘It’s a lot of money. I upped it from ten.’

‘ at’s ver y good of you.’
‘Well, I still get my twenty per cent. Hardly a sacrifice.’