Jason shuffled and fanned out the cards. He then selected three cards and handed them to Natalia. Natalia laid the cards out from left to right. She t...en began interpreting the cards. ‘Your first card Jason, you drew Five of Cups. This is telling me you are getting over a broken heart. I feel that someone very close to you betrayed you, and they broke your heart. I feel that this was a woman who you loved very much. She saw a side of you that no one else saw in you. She took advantage of that. It appears to me to be reliable data. The titles on this bookshelf match the range of titles on board his boat.I hear the shower stop, so I raise my voice. “Cat food! You’re starving your kitty.”“Tall cabinet. Middle shelf. Make sure it’s cat food. I don’t want to feed him tuna!”“Got it,” I replied. “Finish your ablutions!”Pickles knows what’s in that cabinet because as soon as I retrieve the can he’s twining around my legs. I dump the glop into his bowl. It’s something he likes. He hardly. "you were my first."Lexia was silent. Maybe it was too soon for such intimacy; I'd been sucha complete bitch.Like old times she was painting my toenails in my bedroom. In this newworld I had already done hers, after some gentle persuasion. First,fascinated, searching for my Alex, I'd watched Lexia reach under herskirt to skim off her tights. With braided hair, mascara and subtlelipstick, my ex-boyfriend was self-consciously feminine.The cool lick of polish across my nails never faltered. "And. And the guard, sorry, waiter on the door was told about her, and she will be the only one who is allowed in without an invitation and without any fuss.”“But why?”“I won’t descend to her level. She would love to be able to say that she was kept out of her own church, but she wasn’t, and I won’t let her say she was chucked out of our reception, so a place is set for her and she decides whether to use it or not. She is at the end of the top table and she will be escorted there by one of my sons..