But Emma had a bigger problem than the size of her flat. Ian Whitehead and Dexter Mayhew-the two men in her life-still didn’t get on well. Dexter didn’t like Emma’s friendship with Ian even thought he had his own girlfriends. The truth was that Dexter needed Emma as an emotional support but Ian didn’t really understand this need. And Emama was especially important to Dexter, because he didn’t want Emma to have a bast friend who wasn’t himself.