Jason couldn’t talk to Victoria until after the girls went to bed that night.
He’d called her up in the morning, hoping to have lunch with her to get the conversation over with early. But she’d still been in a snit and had eventually hung up on him.
He called back later in the day, and she’d finally consented to meet withhim. But she’d claimed to be busy all day until after nine o’clock.
James tried not to feel annoyed, telling himself she was still really upset about what she thought she had seen between him and Efua. Given how he’d been feeling as he danced with Efua last night, Jason had to admit that she had some reason for resentment—although it wasn’t at all what she was assuming. So he’d agreed to her timetable, and they arranged to meet at a coffee shop halfway between his home and hers at nine-thirty that evening.
treat Genevieve unfairly and not even give her a chance.