A Midlife Gamble (The Midlife Trilogy Book 3) by Cary J Hansson

Author:Cary J Hansson [Hansson , Cary J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hansson Publishing
Published: 2023-05-16T16:00:00+00:00

‘What was all that about that?’ Kay’s face was pale as she watched Helen melt into the flow of people. ‘What is going on?’

‘Kay…’ Caro paused, seemed as if she might speak. But she didn’t. She shook her head and she didn’t say a word.

Kay breathed in, nostrils flaring, weariness threatening. She wasn’t even surprised. She had, she found, almost been expecting it. It was clear that ever since they’d left the UK, Caro and Helen had been playing an odd game. A game that involved the continual passing between them of something fragile; a something that had obviously just been dropped. She had an idea it was Caro that had done the dropping, but why on earth Helen should have a problem with Shook asking Caro to marry him, she couldn’t guess. Caro knew. It was written all over her face, and surrounded by the glitz and pretence and heat of Vegas, Kay experienced an epiphany. She didn’t care. She wasn’t going to ask what the issue was, because she didn’t care, and she wasn’t sure she ever would again. Maybe it still led back to that August night, when Caro had taken Libby’s baby. Maybe they simply weren’t able to put it behind them, and in a small, but disappointed way, Kay thought now, she understood. Nothing in life stayed the same, let alone people. And it might have just been too much to hope that the friendship they’d shared as young women could be sustained now that they were all so much older and yes, uglier. Life had left them chewed up and storm damaged. Maybe it was inevitable that the distance forged by husbands and children and marriages would cement over, become impassable. Maybe, it was time to accept that an exchange of Christmas cards was the way they were heading. Trips together like this were perhaps better left to the 18 to 30 group, when loyalties hadn’t really been tested, the girth of forgiveness not yet been measured. She stuck her hand under her waistband and hitched up her shorts, shifted the strap of her handbag. Part of her wanted to ask Caro about Shook, but not a big enough part. Tussauds had been fun. Silly, easily achievable fun that she wanted only to keep going. She turned to Marianne, but anything else she might have said was pre-empted by Marianne’s huge snort of air.

‘Whatever is the matter?’ said Kay.

Marianne scowled. ‘Tony wants to play Blackjack again.’

‘Oh.’ Kay nodded. Her mood lightened, like blinds had been opened, like someone had come along and slapped the day a lovely lilac. ‘Is that bad?’ she asked lightly.

‘For me it’s bad!’ Marianne muttered. ‘I don’t want to play Blackjack! I don’t even want to know how to play Blackjack! Last night there is a drunk Korean guy, trying to explain me that numbers two to six are worth one point and tens are minus one. If I do this I have an advantage over the house of this.’ Exasperated, she threw her hands up in the air.

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