BRUCE

"Twelve missed calls from Alvan?" I gasp immediately after waking up. Brenda is also awake and she cranes her neck to see my phone screen.

"Why is that man so persistent and annoying?" She asks.

"I think he wanted to ask me why I didn't attend the event yesterday night. He can go to hell for all I care!"

"Don't think so much about it. Let's go and have breakfast." She says to me while grinning.

It's almost three months since she found herself in my house and I'm even surprised at how greatly she has changed.

She now has meat at all the right places and she's becoming...