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“You’ve slept with threeCallum And the only reason you didn’t finish school is because of Jack”

Isobel ignored her “I’m one of those woraphs to find out if the boyfriend is sleeping with his best friend’s wife I’m one of those people I mean it What else would you call a person who has children to three different partners?”

“Unlucky in love?” Donna said

“A slut?” Agnes said

“Mr President,” Mairi said

There was a second of silence, before they all burst out laughing Isobel sat back down at the table with her sisters and pulled the rest of the chocolate cake towards her

“Guess I have no other choice but to wait and see if baby number three is on the way”

“To be fair,” Donna said, “babies one and two are totally awesome”

“There is that,” Isobel said But she wasn’t encouraged She knew nothing about Callum McKay, other than what he ordered at the shop, and what the rumours said about him She didn’t know if he’d be another deadbeat dad who ran out on his kid the first chance he got Did she even want hi, and dangerous, but was he honourable? Probably not Otherwise, he wouldn’t have ju in Arness

“This is a mess,” she said around a mouthful of cake

“Aye, and it gets worse every day” Agnes reached for the pot of tea to top them all up

“I don’t like any of this,” Donna said “I think we should pool our ether”

“We don’t have a lot,” Mairi said, “but it would be enough to get us all settled I’ve always fancied living in a city You know, soet a job where I didn’t talk rubbish to ”

“You love talking rubbish online,” Agnes said “We’d need to h; a city would be expensive I hear Wales is cheap We could probably buy a whole town there for a couple of pounds”

“Oh, I hear Welsh guys are hot,” Mairi said with a grin “I can move to Wales”