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Chapters (45)
  1. Chapter One
  2. Chapter Two
  3. Chapter Three
  4. Chapter Four
  5. Chapter Five
  6. Chapter Six
  7. Chapter Seven
  8. Chapter Eight
  9. Chapter Nine
  10. Chapter Ten
  11. Chapter Eleven
  12. Chapter Twelve
  13. Chapter Thirteen
  14. Chapter Fourteen
  15. Chapter Fifteen
  16. Chapter Sixteen
  17. Chapter Seventeen
  18. Chapter Eighteen
  19. Chapter Nineteen
  20. Chapter Twenty
  21. Chapter Twenty-one
  22. Chapter Twenty-two
  23. Chapter Twenty-three
  24. Chapter Twenty-four
  25. Chapter Twenty-five
  26. Chapter Twenty-six
  27. Chapter Twenty-seven
  28. Chapter Twenty-eight
  29. Chapter Twenty-nine
  30. Chapter Thirty
  31. Chapter Thirty-one
  32. Chapter Thirty-two
  33. Chapter Thirty-three
  34. Chapter Thirty-four
  35. Chapter Thirty-five
  36. Chapter Thirty-six
  37. Chapter Thirty-seven
  38. Chapter Thirty-eight
  39. Chapter Thirty-nine
  40. Chapter Forty
  41. Chapter Forty-one
  42. Chapter Forty-two
  43. Chapter Forty-three
  44. Chapter Forty-four
  45. Acknowledgements

All that time you were having a baby with someone else. You were working away a lot, home about every three weeks to see the kids, then off again. I flick, flick, flick through Katy’s pictures and see that you were there when Jamie took his first step. There are even some pictures of you in bed with baby Jamie.

Jamie wearing a T-shirt saying ‘My Daddy is a Scientist’. I’m suddenly able to time it. Yes. I remember that day. You came home from the airport with presents. You’d bought me perfume from the airport shop as usual and I remember thinking that you did love me after all. Any little token would convince me. You had the same T-shirts for Charlie and Laura. Later on you took them out to McDonald’s to give me a break and yes, you did take them to see your other son. The next few pictures are of you and all your children. All the children I know about so far.

I go back to the thread. For a second it’s as if there’s a whole world out there mocking me. How did you not know, Caroline? How could you have been so stupid? But then it ebbs away and I realise I was right. This isn’t just a bit of fun with another woman. This is seriously fucked up and it bolsters me. I was right. I was. Katy has posted another comment under the picture. ‘Seems like Jack made a lot of promises he couldn’t keep.’

I somehow manage to log into all the fake accounts and make them like each other’s comments. Then I post another Alicia picture. You and her kissing. ‘#cheatingbastard #allgirlstogether.’

In a strange way, I am starting to feel some camaraderie with your women, especially Katy. Closer to them and further away from you. After all, I suppose, I am one of them. You lied to us all. Katy posts again. It’s a picture of you and Jamie. All smiles, a little boy who looks so like you. Our children are blonde like me. But Jamie is a mini-Jack. Katy is wondering how many more women there are. How many women you have lied to. She’s obviously bitter and I’m starting to feel sorry for her and Jamie.

This is bigger than revenge. Yes, she knew that you were with me. She had my children at her home. I think about that day, when you brought Charlie and Laura home. When we all sat around the table later on and they were so quiet. I put it down to the fact that Daddy was home and they were behaving. None of the squabbling or poking each other, the kind of childhood behaviour that was normal for them when it was just me.