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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

His lack of sleep catching up with him, Jason yawned widely, and then almost had heart failure as he realised he hadn’t checked for traffic at a roundabout before entering. Crap! Pressing his foot down on the accelerator, he drove on, leaving a cacophony of horns blaring behind him. Christ. That was a close shave. Swiping a hand shakily over his face, he glimpsed in his rear-view mirror and breathed a considerable sigh of relief when he established that none of the drivers he’d cut up had pursued him. He wouldn’t have blamed them.

He’d been miles away, running through the glitch in the computer software and hoping that Mark really had made some headway with it. It was the only way they stood a chance of keeping their key client, and thereby securing referrals. Selling stylish gym wear to fashion-conscious gym-goers, the client’s company had revenues in excess of £6 million. Jason needed this deal, but, as much as the client loved the sales package they’d put together for him, he doubted he would maintain his turnover if the site crashed before his customers had hit purchase. He hadn’t sounded majorly impressed when they’d last spoken.

Jason had to rescue this. Or else throw in the towel. Wouldn’t his father-in-law just love that? No matter what he said, Fenton didn’t want him to succeed, but Karla couldn’t see it. He wanted him to go under, left with nothing to offer Karla. He wanted him out of her life, regardless of the fact that they’d now been married twelve years and had two children. Children they would never have had if Robert Fenton had had his way.

And whose lives they would ruin if they kept constantly arguing, he thought soberly. Jason had been there, a casualty of parents who chose to stay together for the sake of their children. They’d believed they were providing stability for him and his sister. The reality was that their tangible unhappiness created the very kind of atmosphere that was emotionally toxic to a child.

He needed to turn this around. Somehow. Opening his window, Jason took a gulp of bracing air and tried to concentrate on the road. He could have killed someone back there. Been seriously injured or killed himself, leaving his kids without a father. He pictured Holly, who, for all her sassy eleven-year-old attitude, still wouldn’t go to bed without her Pink Cuddles Build-A-Bear; Josh, his skinny, sensitive son, who was trying to act ‘cool’, while quietly worrying his parents were going to split up, Jason swallowed back a tight lump in his throat.