Chapter Five – Mr. Grinch

‘Renegotiating?’ Blair asked. ‘What kind of renegotiating?’

She lunged upward from her chair and followed Chuck to the sink. Behind her, Eloise used her spoon on bang on the bar, but Blair couldn’t concentrate on the exuberant rhythm. Instead, her mind was filled with thoughts of Chuck – and what he could possibly have meant kwa that ominous, Scrooge-like renegotiating remark.

‘Well, for starters,’ he told her offhandedly, ‘I think wewe should stop with the paper snow flakes.’

Blair gaped at him.

‘That is what you’ve been doing, isn’t it?’...