Mrs Morris Changes Lanes by Debbie Young

Author:Debbie Young
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: magical realism, quirky, twist, surprise, second chances. fresh start, new beginning, starting over, older protagonist, middle-aged protagonist, later life, escapist, escapism, hilarious, heartwarming, quick read, novella, short book, short read, uplit, uplifting, English humour, British humor, funny, laugh-out-loud, Cotswolds, English, countryside, rural, feel-good
Publisher: Hawkesbury Press
Published: 2021-08-28T00:00:00+00:00

7 My Wife

“My wife!” whispered Tom, waking Juliet from her contented slumber.

Juliet’s eyes snapped open like a roller blind whose cord has been pulled too hard. She struggled out of Tom’s arms, which he’d draped gently about her as she slept. For a moment, she assumed he was sounding the alarm at the unexpected arrival of his spouse, now about to catch them naked in bed together. As she pulled the duvet up to her chin, Tom propped himself up on one elbow and gazed down at her.

“Is that such an awful title, Gems? I thought you’d be used to it after all this time.” He smiled. “To be honest, there are still times when I can’t get over my good fortune at marrying you, but I didn’t mean to say it aloud.”

Juliet let go of the duvet and rolled over to face him, snuggling into his bare chest, breathing in his cologne. Rob always wore an old t-shirt and trackie bottoms in bed these days. The closest he ever got to cologne was shower gel, on a good day.

“Nor can I,” Juliet murmured truthfully.

“Many girls wouldn’t have waited for me to finish my studies and get my first job in practice before I proposed. Still, it could have been worse. If I’d trained as a doctor, you’d have had to wait even longer, and my working hours would be much more anti-social.”

Juliet wasn’t sure what to say. He took her silence as a signal to continue.

“Not that I mind doing one weekend a month on the emergency rota or the odd locum duty. It would have been selfish not to cover for George Allsop today. He’s been waiting months for that hospital appointment, and it was easy enough for me to fill in for him, what with my treatment room being out of action while the new chair is being installed.”

Tom wriggled up into a sitting position, rested his broad back against the nut-brown padded leather headboard and gazed across at the huge bay window. Immediately above the study, it gave on to views of gently rolling hills beyond the top of the holly hedge.

“Oh well, back to the grind among the dreaming spires tomorrow.” He grinned at his dental pun. Juliet wondered whether he made it every working day.

So Oxford was where he usually worked. No wonder she’d not seen him around Cirencester. She guessed his house must be in some posh remote hamlet near Witney or Burford. Very nice too.

As Juliet sat up beside him, Tom lowered an arm around her shoulders.

“You know, sometimes I think it would be nice to spend a whole day together midweek while the children are at school, but my budget won’t quite run to that yet. Not until at least one of the mortgages is paid off.”

One of the mortgages? thought Juliet. Despite the unfortunate business with the taxman, she and Rob had only ever had a single mortgage, and they’d paid that off a few years before.

“On the plus side, apart from work, we’ve another twenty-four hours to ourselves.

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