Chapter 27

Whatever had gone down between Jack and Luca at the leisure centre, there was no sign of it when Mam caved in under the pressure of Tav feeding his youngest sister Amy packets of sweets and letting her bounce off the walls. By the time he was released—both from Mam and from endless lunchtime and after-school detentions at school, it was early December, and Jack Collins was apparently steering well clear of either of them.

Good decision, far as Tav was concerned.