They take off on the winding roads around the Heath, and she feels the car growling underneath her, the insistent pull of the torque, the steering wheel warm in her hands, and Jensen turns up the music, singing “I’m Every Woman” unselfconsciously and off-key, and Lila finding herself singing too, starts to get a whisper of what he means. There’s something about the cold blasting onto her cheeks, the exposure to the world around them, the music in her ears, her hair whipping around her face, that clears her head, scatters her endless looping thoughts. And then she is singing along, not caring
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