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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

‘I’m sorry it’s all a bit one-sided at the moment.’ Rob reaches for her hand. ‘We moved here for my job – at the expense of yours – and I—’

‘Nothing in the pact said it would be equal at all times. So stop worrying. Let me get this house sorted because when I’m back, working all hours in a school, I won’t even have time to make beans on toast for dinner. And as for laundry and cleaning – well, forget it!’

Rob laughs. She’s glad she’s eased his worry. He already carries enough guilt about this move to London, and she hates seeing him worry about her. He’s already done enough of that, looking after her when her mum died two years ago. Never again will Abby let him carry a burden for her.

Later that night, while Rob sleeps, his laptop still open on the bed, she walks through the house in darkness, the torch on her phone guiding her way. It feels like wandering around a stranger’s house. She never tells Rob that her heart is still in their two-bed rented flat in Ipswich. They could have bought somewhere years ago, but she couldn’t bear the thought of leaving it, even though it meant throwing money away on rent.

She needs to get a grip. This will be a beautiful home once they’ve finished doing it up, and she’ll be back working in the job she loves soon enough. But no matter how much she tries to force it, she can’t escape the feeling that she’s left so much more behind than just memories of her mum.

Abby doesn’t know it, but she’s less than twenty-four hours away from meeting Sienna Wells. Her life is going to change beyond recognition, making her wish all she has to worry about is adjusting to their new life.

Sienna Wells.

Abby will come to wish she’d never laid eyes on you.

TWO

Sienna

There are two sides to every story, aren’t there? But not this one. This one has far more. For Sienna, everything starts and ends with Abby. There is nothing unusual about how their paths cross – not really. A chance meeting, much like any other, no different from the way anyone enters another person’s life. There is nothing sinister or premeditated about any of it, even Abby will have to admit that much. Random. Somehow, that makes what happens even worse.

‘Are you feeling okay?’ Greg asks in the morning. ‘You seem a bit… I don’t know… not yourself.’