ing dusk. A tall, lean man with a head of coppery hair, he had smiled reassuringly at me as he jumped down from his truck and approached me. He was wearing an old

n I had met, Jack had not stared at my body, at my large breasts to be precise. Instead, he had fetched the tools from his truck and s

and told hi

I was travelling around before I headed h

concern writ l

he ha

here tonight

there were always strings attached. Particularly if they found out that I had belonged to a commune and had spent my childhood

y, I stepped

alarm on my face, h

ight with his wife and him before heading on. It’s not safe …’ he m

gave me as he ran his eyes over my face and

I had taken him

*

he had promised. The lawyer who happened to be a good friend of his, n

d so desperate to make me stay on in the small town. I was a trained preschool teacher, having done my courses online and I loved l

no vacancy in t

ous genuine concern towards me. After a long while, I had met a man who reminded me of my own Dad, a man

*

e Jack arrived. His wife had been a glamorous beauty. They had been high school sweetheart

ounting business with a partner. He had been wildly successful and

a great career going for him. That scheming woman saw him as a way to lead a luxurious life

o had worshipped her. She had a lot of flings, nothing serious. But when Carter came onboard Jack’s firm as a legal adviso

me to a he

fice, he gave her an ultimatum. She walked out

Jack was too broken to put up a fight. He sold out his shares

e. I sat at the kitchen table, my chin in m

over his house in the city to Andrea and only kept the cabin for himself. He had yet to find

us, I

ack…he co

Sliding me an old fashioned look she pushed a new p

d scowled. “He is still young, just thirty-eight, not ancient, b

hook h

inking she would return to him. Cart

ing the crumbs from the surfac

th another woman. Stays in t

look on her face as she

then and whatever Beth had been