The Case for Jamie (Charlotte Holmes, #3)

by Brittany Cavallaro

ONLY FOLLOW RULES THAT ARE REASONABLE. The issue with this axiom is that very few rules are reasonable when examined closely.

Last fall, someone had said, Your narrator should make some better decisions. It was like therapy, except the therapists had been given bludgeons.

With Watson I had always been made better.

I fitted his hand against my hip and told him the three other times he’d put it just there (a bookshop in South London, by accident; on the flight back to England, to take my phone from my pocket; while brushing our teeth in the same bathroom in Sussex, because he needed to open a drawer and I’d been in the way).

Because I knew Watson well enough to know that in my absence, there would be another girl beside him. He wouldn’t pine forever. Why should he? The thought gave me comfort. It made me furious.

“Give it time,” I told him. It was advice I’d heard given before. I assumed it had some merit.