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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

What Sienna also wants to ask him about is Holly. For four years she’s been intrigued to know more about her husband’s ex-wife – Greg only ever serving her snippets of information. It’s understandable after Holly had left him in shreds, yet Sienna longs to know more about the woman Greg had loved so much. The woman before. Unfortunately, Greg is a closed book, his lips tightening whenever she ventures Holly’s name. Sienna knows this yearning for information isn’t healthy, but she needs to fill in the missing pieces of her husband.

You’d think that because of Jackson, and the amount of time he spends at Sienna’s house, she’d have got to know Holly fairly well by now, but this is far from the case. It’s Greg who usually does the pick-ups and drop-offs, and even when Holly does have to come and get him, like this evening, Holly will wait in the car, offering only a quick wave in Sienna’s direction.

There’s only been one time when Sienna’s seen her close enough to study her features, and that’s when she came to see Greg at the hospital, long before he and Sienna were anything. Sienna can still recall Holly’s face lighting up in the corridor as Greg walked towards her, the way she wrapped her arms around him as if there was nobody watching them. Or as if she didn’t care if there had been. Neither of them had noticed Sienna pass right by them, and she’d smiled to herself to witness such an unrestrained display of affection. Of course, this was long before she had any feelings for Greg, long before that kiss. But it had shocked her how soon after this Holly had left him.

‘School’s okay,’ Jackson says, still not gracing her with eye contact.

It’s clear that she won’t get much more from him, so she gives up. ‘Do you want to watch Netflix while you wait for your mum?’ This isn’t much better than his iPad, but at least there’ll be some noise in the room, drowning out the excruciating silence.

Jackson answers with no hesitation. ‘Yes, please.’

At least he’s always polite.

In the end, Greg is forty-five minutes late to the restaurant. Sienna sits at the bar of The Ivy in Covent Garden and does her usual thing. She’s unable to recognise that her loquaciousness is masking nerves. Anxiety even. She has convinced herself that her confidence is finally genuine, coming only from strength of character that she’s fought hard to develop. In this moment, she would never believe for a second that soon all of that is about to change.

Marty sits beside her; he’s the only one of Greg’s friends who bothers to engage her in conversation beyond a polite but forced greeting, and Sienna is fond of him, despite his wife.