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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

‘Worse than.’ I avert my gaze, fixing it hard on ceiling, but as hard as I try to stop them, still the tears come. ‘I think he hates me.’

‘Nonsense. Jason couldn’t hate you if he tried,’ Mum says, discernible agitation in her voice as she tries to reassure me. ‘You’re overreacting.’

That’s exactly what I’ve done. My father is the one full of hatred, for Jason, for reasons I will never understand. He hinted that there might be evidence of my husband cheating on me on his laptop and I leapt on it. Evidence that might even have been planted there by him. I don’t know whether my father would sink that low, but I’m not sure I believe Mark’s claim to have been using Jason’s laptop either. Isn’t it more likely that, realising Jason needed help getting out of a hole, he was covering his friend’s back? Regardless, I can’t believe Jason would do such a thing. Yet I hurled accusations at him, loudly, in front of his staff. And all this after he’d come from a meeting with my father that had clearly been soul-destroying. Jason should hate me, but he could never hate me as much as I hate myself right now.

‘He found me in his office,’ I confide miserably, as Mum wraps an arm around me and steers me firmly towards the kitchen. ‘He came back from seeing Dad to find me checking his internet history.’

‘His internet history?’ Mum’s step falters. ‘But… Why?’

‘Because of Dad,’ I say, as she stares at me, astonished. ‘Why is he doing this, Mum? What does he have against him? I don’t understand.’ The tears come in earnest then. ‘Please… make him stop.’

Nineteen

DIANA

Hearing Robert’s key in the lock, Diana placed the last of her grandchildren’s dinner dishes in the dishwasher and braced herself to go and speak to him. She rarely talked to him about anything meaningful, mainly because, being the opinionated person that he was, Robert rarely listened. But she needed to now. She had to establish what had gone on between him and Jason earlier that day. Karla was worried to death, and she couldn’t believe Robert was so oblivious to that fact that he would continue these ridiculous attempts to drive Jason from her life. He and Karla were together, married with two children, for goodness’ sake. It was time Robert damn well accepted it.

‘Evening,’ he called shortly from the hall.

Diana didn’t answer. That would be far too happy-couple-ish. They hadn’t been that in a very long time. They rubbed along, he doing his thing, she doing hers, but that was all. She was content to do so. If he rocked the boat, though… She had assets now, and wouldn’t hesitate to leave him clinging to the wreckage on his own.