Lost Angel by Heller Mandasue

Author:Heller, Mandasue [Heller, Mandasue]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Publisher: Hachette Littlehampton
Published: 2012-04-11T23:00:00+00:00

15

Frankie had been feeling rough for a while. Not rough enough to stay off work, but enough to go straight home afterwards for the first time in years. He felt so drained tonight that he could happily have gone to bed and slept for a week. But that wasn’t an option, because it was Ruth’s birthday and she had invited him and Rita round for dinner.

It had been months since his wife and daughter had spoken to each other and without Ruth to distract her, Rita had been driving Frankie absolutely crazy. She’d taken to ringing him a thousand times a day to ask where he was, what he was doing, and when he was coming home. And the constant interruptions were starting to piss off his mistress, so he was getting earache from her as well as from Rita – all of which he could do without.

Determined to get them back on course tonight if it killed him, Frankie took a shower and climbed into the clothes that Rita had laid out on the bed for him. Then, after throwing a couple of painkillers down his throat, he hustled Rita into the car and set off.

Over at the Conroys’ house, as he got ready for the dinner Johnny was equally as eager for Ruth and her mum to settle their differences – and for almost the same reason as Frankie.

He liked Lisa, and the sex was fantastic, but it was becoming increasingly difficult to keep up the double life now that Ruth was back on her feet and he no longer had an excuse not to have sex with her. And while shagging two women had never been a problem before he’d got married, now he had the added worry not only of Ruth and Frankie finding out, but Dave as well.

Dave wasn’t stupid. He knew there was another girl on the scene and was constantly asking Johnny who she was. But Johnny couldn’t tell him, because mates weren’t supposed to shag each other’s exes – especially not when they knew that their mate still had feelings for the girl. Lisa might have made it clear to Dave that they were never going to get back together but that didn’t stop Dave from hoping, and he was always banging on about her to Johnny. If he found out that his mate was the real reason why Lisa wouldn’t entertain him, all hell would break loose – and Johnny was scared that he might even be pissed off enough to tell Frankie out of spite.

And, since she’d decided to tell Johnny that she loved him, Lisa was just as much of a threat. As Johnny knew only too well from bitter past experience, love-struck women were more than capable of doing something stupid to get revenge if a man tried to break up with them. So he was stuck with her. And that was why it was so important for Ruth and her mum to kiss and make up tonight:

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