Act-of-Betrayal by Sara Craven

Author:Sara Craven [Craven, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

'So,' Bethany said. 'You went and got a divorce.' 'Not

immediately. First, I went back to London. I went to the flat in

Belgravia, and hung about for most of the morning. I hated myself

for doing it, but somehow I had to see her in the flesh know what

I was up against.' Laura frowned and shook her head. 'It was a

mistake.' ' I can imagine,' Bethany said drily. T suppose you

ended up liking her.' 'She looked nicer than she did in the

photographs younger. I could see what would attract him attract

any man. She had a pleasant voice and a lovely smile. She was

pregnant and blooming, and I sat across the road in a taxi and

hated her for all of it.' Laura sighed. 'It was a silly

hysterical thing to do, but I wasn't thinking very straight.'

'You spoke to her?' Bethany's eyebrows climbed to her hairline,

and Laura smiled reluctantly. 'No, I didn't go that far. But she

stopped to talk to some people neighbours, I think and I could

hear what she was saying. They called her Mrs Wingard, and I

remember thinking that hadn't been On the detective's report. It

made me very angry and so it was possible to do what I had to do

next.' She paused. T went across London to see Jason.' He had

just been coming out of the studio. When he saw her his face lit

up with surprise, and what she would have sworn was delight. He

said, ' I was going to 'phone tonight and tell your uncle I

wanted my wife back. Come up to the studio, I have something to

show you.'

She followed him up the stairs. 'And I have something to say to

you.' 'Say it then,' he threw casually over his shoulders. 'I'll

make the coffee.' ' I don't want any coffee.' The note in her

voice made him turn and study her, his brows drawing together in

a frown. He said, 'You look like death. Your few days in the

country don't seem to have done a great deal of good.' 'On the

contrary, I see all kinds of things in a completely new light.'

She made herself look him in the face. 'Jason tell me one thing.

The money from our account, did you give it to Clare Marshall and

her child her children?' She stood, watching the colour drain out

of his face at her words. She realised she'd been praying for

some kind of miracle a denial ,a complete vindication. She'd been

praying for the impossible. 'Someone,' he said after a long,

terrible silence, 'appears to have been busy. Let me guess. Can

it have been kindly Uncle Martin?' 'Does it matter? It's true,

isn't it? You've been taking my paltry allowance and giving it to

your mistress to support her and her child. You were letting us

scratch round for a deposit on a house while she was living like

a queen. You were sleeping with her. My God.' Her voice cracked.

'No wonder you didn't really want my baby. Why should you when

you had a ready-made family already?' He was white and there was

a" muscle jumping dangerously at his temple. He said, 'I'm

warning you, Laura.

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