Series-AFigureLikeThat

A Figure Like That
TWENTY-SEVEN
Calvin told Fear, Jack and Thiago that he’ll
see them later – although at the back of his
mind he knew that this might not be true – and
he went back to his electric bicycle that he had
left on a charger just outside of Regents Park,
near the offices’ entrance, and cycled back to
his family home in Chelsea, West London. It
took him about twnty minutes to get home by
using the cycle pathway that the previous
Mayor of London had built with the help of
Jamie and his civic engineers. His family lived in
a four-bedroom semi-detached house with a
large back garden; sometimes he felt a bit guilty
that he lived in such luxury, but he consoled
himself with the fact that what he did for work
was beneficial to society and in anyway, these
days, no one in Britain or in western Europe
was exactly poor. Nonetheless he had been to
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