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Then Mark dropped the metaphorical bomb

"D'you know, I reckon Muht she did"

I stared at hi she said to me at the airport, just before I left And you knohat she does when she doesn't want to say anything ets this offended look She did that You just know soreed "I know that little manoeuvre of hers very well She used to do it to me when I asked her about Dad Drove me crazy Still does, actually, which is why I eventually stopped asking" I paused "So what did she say?"

"She said she knohat Angus is and that he will look after us"

"What? What's that supposed tocryptic and i for a while now that so stuff fro, and now she finds out you're getting married in a few days and she doesn't bat an eyelid And her reaction when you were kidnapped eird I mean, she was upset, but she never questioned our half-baked explanations about you not wanting the police involved It was alus is freaky, no offense," he said

"Surprisingly, none taken, " replied Angus dryly

I said nothing, just waited for hi the same way about Mued htly unbalanced ways, and I had felthis concerns and suspicions, lanced over at ly

"Seriously, Rebecca's first boyfriend ever, and Mu out with friends, s out here and even sleep here, while she suns herself in Barbados I'us is an iron metaboliser and she suspects that we are too, Bex I'll bet that's why she's always kept us so isolated with her alleged panic attacks, and why she's now all calm and collected She's always known that ould be different, and now that we've found Angus, she's quite happy to let him take over, because he's different too And he's the same different as us"

I squinted a bit with the last sentence, but the rest seemed to make complete sense Mum's behaviour had always been erratic in the past, but this was taking it to a whole new level There had to be some rational explanation And this one fit perfectly