Page 81 of The Silent Appeal

I might suggest she comes with me to Mendhams.

Message exchange between Sarah-Jane MacDonald and Nicky-Rose Dearing on February 11, 2025:

12:36 p.m. Sarah-Jane wrote:

Thanks for helping Kevin last night.

12:41 p.m. Nicky-Rose wrote:

Weird going to the hall. Last time was early 2000s, with James and Paige and a few others. Were we doing Two Weeks with the Queen? Something like that. The place hasn’t changed, not at ALL.

12:42 p.m. Sarah-Jane wrote:

The place hasn’t.

12:42 p.m. Nicky-Rose wrote:

You’ve got some good actors.

12:43 p.m. Sarah-Jane wrote:

Heads-up: Mum wants you to work your magic at Mendhams.

12:43 p.m. Nicky-Rose wrote:

I’m already spoken for at Fairways.

12:57 p.m. Sarah-Jane wrote:

You should tell her. Everything. You’re living in her house, after all.

1:09 p.m. Nicky-Rose wrote:

Nothing to tell. It’s over. I’m job hunting and now with the play, there’s something to fill my spare time too.

1:18 p.m. Nicky-Rose wrote:

Been working my butt off forever. Just want some FUN, SJ. Goal is to find a basic job I can pick up at nine and forget at five.

1:19 p.m. Sarah-Jane wrote:

Kevin is in dire need of someone who can converse with his new accounting software.

1:20 p.m. Nicky-Rose wrote:

I’ll pop into his office this p.m.

To: Nicky-Rose Dearing

From: Stuart Kinsella

Date: February 12, 2025

Subject: Re: Hi

Apols re: yesterday’s email. Had one too many after work. Big changes at the bank. A night of the long knives cut our floor by 50 percent. Morale hit the deck. Stu x

To: Emma Crooks