Deathly Affair by Leigh Russell

Author:Leigh Russell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oldcastle Books
Published: 2019-10-29T14:16:45+00:00

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Ann and David were sitting at the supper table, where he insisted the family ate together every evening. Aimee had disappeared upstairs, having eaten with them in sullen silence, while Ann and David had kept up a semblance of a normal family having dinner together. David was introverted at the best of times and Ann was not feeling chatty, but she had done her best to keep the conversation flowing for Aimee’s sake. When she stood up to clear away the plates, David glanced at his watch and announced that he was going into the living room to watch the local news.

‘I don’t want to miss what’s happening,’ he added, giving her a sharp glance.

Registering her husband’s sudden interest in the local news, a horrible thought occurred to Ann. He had given her no other reason to suppose he might have killed Mark, but as soon as the idea occurred to her, she felt an unnerving suspicion that she could be right. David’s behaviour towards her had definitely changed since Mark’s death. For no obvious reason he had become very solicitous, and she could think of no other explanation for his concern. He asked her repeatedly if she was all right, which was unusual. The only way he could have realised something was amiss was by knowing about the affair and what had happened to Mark. And if he had discovered the affair, the only reason he would have refrained from mentioning it to her would be if he had decided to deal with the situation himself by getting rid of Mark.

It was a wild conjecture, but it was possible that, in an insane bid to save his marriage, her husband had killed her lover. The more she thought about it, the more sense it made. She recalled Mark telling her that he was being stalked. She had been afraid then that David had been following her. He had always been aggressively possessive, refusing to allow her to see any of her friends without him until, one by one, they had stopped calling her. There had never been many of them to begin with. At first, she had not really minded. She had been kept too busy looking after the baby, and tending to her husband’s needs, to pay much attention to anything else. Fussy about his food, and fastidious about the house being kept spotless, David expected her to cook and clean every day. For a long time she had not realised his behaviour was peculiar, and she had puzzled over how the married women among her few friends had been the last to stop calling her, as though their husbands had accepted they would want to go out with their girlfriends.

The thought that David could be responsible for Mark’s death made her feel physically sick. Her legs trembled. She would never see her lover again, never feel the touch of his lips or his hands on her body, never watch his muscles move as he undressed and walked towards her to take her in his arms.

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