"For you."
Ramsey opened it. In front of everybody, still smiling, with both hands.
And his face went.
His face went red in about two seconds, from the collar upwards, which I have not seen that man do in fourteen years.
I leaned forward and looked in.
And for the first time in about two years — not that day; two years — I started smiling as well, and could not stop for about four minutes.
PART 5
Four lever-arch files. Standing upright, spines out, packed tight so they would not fall over in a car boot.
Red, red, blue, red. The blue one is 2019 and I remember buying it in a supermarket because the shop was shut.
Eleven years of the books of Brackley Plant Hire, which is Ramsey's company and has been since 2011.
All of it in my handwriting.
Ramsey recognised it from about four feet away, through an open flap, before he had taken a single page out of that box.
