Love by Deception: A harrowing true story of love and betrayal. by K Barnard

Author:K Barnard [Barnard, K]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-06-06T04:00:00+00:00

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When Alice told Henry we had split up, he was delighted. He said he had waited all this time for me to finally discover he had been telling the truth, I had still maintained my friendship with him throughout my time with Cockroach, but we just talked about everything else but him. He told me him and Alice had mentioned to Cockroach briefly that I had been in an abusive relationship, so he definitely from day one knew, therefore he was able to mirror what I wanted/needed. James, my ex-lodger, was equally as pleased and had never even mentioned a word about the DIY, “Why the hell would I have a go at someone for doing that sort of stuff when I don’t even do it myself?” He had smelt a rat straight away, but just kept his nose out of it and moved himself into another place. Of course Justina was delighted too that her prediction of him being a sneaky little shit had been right, and that I was now well rid of him. So I guess from the very start Cockroach had a plan and he implemented it from day one.

After the revelation I had been dating a man I knew nothing about, I felt really uneasy and unnerved, the whole relationship had been fruitless and I had been duped. Who was he? One of my brothers changed the locks, I had my letter box bolted up, and changed all my banking details and passwords. He had never been aggressive, but the truth was, I didn’t know who he was or what he was capable of. Better to be on your guard anyway. Even though he doesn’t live that far away from me, I have never seen him to this day. I was told after he had been spotted driving around in a top of the range Mercedes with a personal number plate - this didn’t surprise Emma or I, because he had so many secrets and aliases, therefore was probably living a double life all those years anyway. Not long after I met him I heard through the grapevine he had been a local wannabe drug dealer, but again put it down to nasty rumours not wanting to believe it. I took a lot of what I heard after with a pinch of salt, I just wanted to move on as quickly as I could and I didn’t want to waste my precious time having conversations about him.

The only time I cried about Cockroach was after a few months had passed. I went into my shed to take all the alcohol upstairs in preparation for Christmas and my 40th birthday, and I noticed my magnum of Dom Perignon champagne was missing. Friends had clubbed together and given it to me at my party the year before, so I said to Cockroach I was going to save it for the following year. I took it and swiftly stuck it in the bottom of my wardrobe that evening in case it was opened by accident - it was far too expensive and special to be drunk on that night.

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