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Chapters (67)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. PROLOGUE
  4. PART ONE
  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. PART TWO
  23. EIGHTEEN
  24. NINETEEN
  25. TWENTY
  26. TWENTY-ONE
  27. TWENTY-TWO
  28. TWENTY-THREE
  29. TWENTY-FOUR
  30. TWENTY-FIVE
  31. TWENTY-SIX
  32. TWENTY-SEVEN
  33. TWENTY-EIGHT
  34. TWENTY-NINE
  35. PART THREE
  36. THIRTY
  37. THIRTY-ONE
  38. THIRTY-TWO
  39. THIRTY-THREE
  40. THIRTY-FOUR
  41. THIRTY-FIVE
  42. THIRTY-SIX
  43. THIRTY-SEVEN
  44. THIRTY-EIGHT
  45. THIRTY-NINE
  46. PART FOUR
  47. FORTY
  48. FORTY-ONE
  49. FORTY-TWO
  50. FORTY-THREE
  51. FORTY-FOUR
  52. FORTY-FIVE
  53. FORTY-SIX
  54. FORTY-SEVEN
  55. FORTY-EIGHT
  56. FORTY-NINE
  57. FIFTY
  58. FIFTY-ONE
  59. FIFTY-TWO
  60. FIFTY-THREE
  61. FIFTY-FOUR
  62. EPILOGUE
  63. Mailing list
  64. A Letter from Kathryn
  65. Acknowledgements
  66. About the Author
  67. Also by Kathryn Croft

A bomb has exploded in her life, and she has no idea how to deal with it. All of this information is too much. She needs to pick it apart and reassemble it to make sense of it. There has to be another reason why Abby is saying all of this.

‘Why now? If it’s true, then why didn’t you tell me any of this before? We were supposed to be friends, but clearly your loyalties lay with Greg, a man you hardly even knew.’ She wipes tears away. ‘You slept with him, didn’t you? Even after he said all this! Was it your way of comforting him?’

‘No! I swear to you nothing like that happened. Yes, it was a kind of intimacy that he was telling me all this, but it wasn’t physical in any way. I wouldn’t do that to you.’

Rob, though. Why hasn’t she mentioned that she wouldn’t do that to Rob? Sienna stares at her, tries to assimilate all of this information. ‘What did you say to Greg when he said all this?’

‘I told him to tell you, and that you could work it out together. He just kept crying, saying his work could never find out, and that he’d lose everything. He was terrified of losing Jackson. He made me promise not to say anything.’ She pauses. ‘I made him that promise because I could see how much pain he was in.’

Sienna feels sick again.

‘He said that he’d tell you, Sienna. And I believed him. I made up the spare bed for him, and he went to sleep. If I hadn’t drunk so much, I wouldn’t have managed to get to sleep myself. I don’t know how, but I did. And then when I woke up in the morning he’d already left. Without a word.’

This is too much. She doesn’t want to hear any more, but she needs to know all of it. She’s confused – torn between not wanting to believe Abby, and the minute possibility that maybe Abby is telling the truth.

‘And did you speak to him again?’ Sienna asks.

‘Yes. The next day I went to the hospital to confront him about what he’d told me, and he acted as though nothing had happened. I told him he had to tell you; otherwise I would. Then he texted to ask if I’d give him a week to talk to you. I allowed him that time and, on the last day, he asked if he could meet me before he spoke to you. I really thought he just wanted my advice about how to tell you, or just to go through everything in his mind. I never thought for one second he’d—’

‘And you didn’t stop to think that the police would need to know about this?’