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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

One thing’s for sure, he won’t be able to hide it now. The photographs already have over 100 likes. I check Alicia’s thread and they’ve been copied onto there, with someone pointing out that ‘that’s her SISTER!’ and ‘You OK Caroline hun? We’re here for you.’ Fiona has sent me a message telling me to phone her if it all gets too much. I see now that she’d messaged me several times but I’d ignored her – I’d put that right when all this was over.

It’s time to go home and face the music. My best reading of what’s gone on with DS Percy is that she’s concerned for my well-being, either because she’s believed his ‘mentally ill’ line or because she wonders how much I can endure. I don’t think I’m in trouble. She suspects I’m behind this but can’t prove it. I think it through. I’m going to need a witness. I ask the barman for the note back and leave my phone number for Lee. I add two kisses and, Ring me.

Because I’ve felt perpetually that I’m in trouble for years I don’t know if I’m a hero or a villain. I’m obviously the pioneer of the #allgirlstogether movement. I’m the vessel for the outpouring of #cheatingbastard behaviour from both women and men. What I’m not sure of is how the police will view this. I do know that they need a complaint in order to act, and the only one they have so far is from Jack.

I log off and switch on my own phone. Back to the real world. As soon as I switch it on it flashes with messages. I can deal with this later.

Chapter Thirty-one

My mind races all the way. I could take this further. I could go on TV and really let everyone know what I’ve gone through. Everything that is happening now is a public record of me fighting back against what Jack put me through. All the more reason to maintain a dignified silence.

It isn’t illegal to make a fake Facebook account. It isn’t illegal to post pictures on the internet. Just like it isn’t illegal to break someone’s heart. It isn’t illegal to ask someone why they slept with your husband. I didn’t hurt anyone at The Tea Cosy. Not physically. I bitterly regret that, though. The rest is revenge. I wonder if that’s how it will work.

Or, like everything else in my life so far, I’ll somehow be punished for someone else’s mistakes? It doesn’t matter now. I started from a losing position and that was the problem. If it all goes to shit now I haven’t lost anything.