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She tries to make herself want this for her, but she can’t.
“It doesn’t matter. I just feel, Jonathan, as if there’s a dark void here, in our world, and that you emerged from it and now I’m being sucked down into it too.”
It’s as if, she suddenly realizes with a shot of dark dread, she’s obsessed with him.
But now I don’t feel safe leaving the house for a whole weekend; it will give my wife too much space to plan and plot, to change locks, call in the cavalry.
He lies like a man who has never been caught out in a lie, who thinks he is invulnerable.
She wants to go to bed, and she wants to sleep for a hundred years and wake up and find that everyone has sorted out everything while she was gone.
That is the biggest lesson I have learned. Don’t let them hate you. Once they hate you, there’s no way back, and there always, always needs to be a way back.
“Make sure your mum doesn’t let him at her money. Make sure she stays in control. But better still, make sure she gets rid of him.”
He has been with Martha for four years and before that he was married to a woman called Tara, who is the woman who was reported missing after leaving this flat four years ago. He was also married to a woman called Laura, and they had two daughters he abandoned when they were very young and who are now teenagers. He also…”
He realized that Martha, his current wife, had worked out that he was with Ash’s mum and he did a runner. But we have a plan. OK? We’re working on it. Would you want to see him? You and your brother?”
I saw red. Or some other color, in fact, a sort of bruise color, sick gray, violent purple, putrid, dirty yellow. And then I found that my hands were at her throat.
I know I said I wasn’t a violent man. I’m not a violent man. Not until someone pushes me too far, to a place where I can no longer talk sense to myself.
