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Chapters (60)
  1. Cover
  2. Books by Sheryl Browne
  3. Dedication
  4. KARLA
  5. One
  6. Two
  7. Three
  8. Four
  9. Five
  10. Six
  11. Seven
  12. Eight
  13. Nine
  14. Ten
  15. Eleven
  16. Twelve
  17. Thirteen
  18. Fourteen
  19. Fifteen
  20. Sixteen
  21. Seventeen
  22. Eighteen
  23. Nineteen
  24. Twenty
  25. Twenty-One
  26. Twenty-Two
  27. Twenty-Three
  28. Twenty-Four
  29. Twenty-Five
  30. Twenty-Six
  31. Twenty-Seven
  32. Twenty-Eight
  33. Twenty-Nine
  34. Thirty
  35. Thirty-One
  36. Thirty-Two
  37. Thirty-Three
  38. Thirty-Four
  39. Thirty-Five
  40. Thirty-Six
  41. Thirty-Seven
  42. Thirty-Eight
  43. Thirty-Nine
  44. Forty
  45. Forty-One
  46. Forty-Two
  47. Forty-Three
  48. Forty-Four
  49. Forty-Five
  50. Forty-Six
  51. Forty-Seven
  52. Forty-Eight
  53. Epilogue
  54. The Affair
  55. Hear more from Sheryl
  56. Books by Sheryl Browne
  57. A Letter from Sheryl
  58. The Babysitter
  59. The Second Wife
  60. Acknowledgements

Diana prayed it didn’t. She was still struggling to believe it. Jason seemed to care so deeply for Karla. It had been clear to Diana how much he’d loved her from outset. There was no mistaking a man’s love for a woman, and Jason’s feelings for Karla had been obvious. He’d fought so hard for her, despite Robert’s determination to split them up, which Diana had never condoned. As far as Diana was concerned, fate had brought them together. They’d created a child. After all Karla had already lost, how cruel would it have been for her to lose the man she loved too? It was possible that Jason had grown weary with the battle, she supposed, this constant war between him and Robert, the arguments he and Karla were having, more and more lately, and his fight to save his failing business. Even so, for him to have made the decision to cheat on Karla in such a cold, calculating way… That was more Robert’s domain than Jason’s.

‘Damn.’ Missing the call as she struggled to remove her rubber gloves, Diana cursed her obsessive need to always be busy while Robert was off doing what she knew very well he was, and then selected Karla’s number and called her straight back.

‘Mum?’ Karla jumped on the call, her voice small and tearful. ‘I wondered where you were.’

Diana frowned in concern. ‘Here,’ she assured her. ‘Where I always am.’ That was to say, cleaning the house so thoroughly you could perform open heart surgery on the kitchen floor without risk of infection, driving herself more insane than Robert had already driven her and biding her time until she could leave her husband to stew in his own mess, but Karla didn’t need to know any of that. ‘What’s happened, lovely?’ she asked her gently.

Hearing a long intake of breath, Diana waited. And then, ‘Do you think I’m like Dad, Mum?’ Karla blurted.

Well, that was something she absolutely didn’t have to tear herself up about, Diana thought angrily. ‘If you mean do you run roughshod over people’s feelings, then no, Karla, I don’t,’ she told her firmly. ‘You’ve always been caring towards other people. Too caring sometimes. Why on earth would you imagine you’re not?’

‘Because I don’t think I’m a very nice person,’ Karla said, sounding so uncertain that Diana found herself cursing Jason, despite her gut feeling that he would never trample over other people’s feelings either.

‘That’s utter nonsense, Karla,’ she scolded her. ‘You’re looking for reasons for Jason to be doing what he appears to be doing – and I emphasise the word appears – and you’re wrong. You’re nothing like Robert.’