My Husband's Secret: An absolutely gripping page-turner with a heart-stopping twist by L.G. Davis

Author:L.G. Davis [Davis, L.G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781803146720
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2022-09-15T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 22

JODIE: 31 YEARS AGO

The morning Jodie Gregor’s life changed forever, she woke up at 6:30 a.m. with a bad feeling in the pit of her stomach that warned her that something was off or about to go wrong. She didn’t know what or when it would happen, but she could feel it in her bones.

As she did every morning, she opened the window to let fresh air into the room, and sat back down on the bed where she spent a few minutes in prayer. Afterward, she sat in silence so that she could listen to the birds outside the window and the rustle of leaves in the wind, while trying to understand what it was she was really feeling. She didn’t like it one bit.

Her mother, Monica, had always told her that the greatest tool she had at her disposal was her instincts and she had to trust them. She repeated the same words to Jodie when she was on her deathbed, a few breaths away from checking out for good.

“Your instinct is never wrong, my child. I wish I had listened when my gut warned me against getting involved with your father.”

Jodie’s father had been a married man her mother had met at a party, but he’d had no ring on his finger. Against the alarm bells in her head, her mother had fallen head over heels in love with him and become pregnant. Only then had he confessed he was married and did not want his family to find out about the child that had been conceived out of wedlock. That had been the last time they’d seen each other. He’d left, and Monica had raised her daughter alone.

Since the day her mother had died from kidney failure, Jodie had promised herself to listen to her intuition, no matter how crazy it seemed. Before making a major decision, she would always pause and listen to her inner voice. Her gut was the tool she turned to when her heart needed advice. It was her gut she listened to when she chose to follow in her mother’s footsteps and become a nurse. Her gut she turned to when she contemplated moving to Kenya for one year to work for the Doctors Without Borders volunteer program.

If she had not gone, chances were she would not have met Harry Gregor, a farmer’s boy turned accountant, whom she had bumped into at the airport in Nairobi, when her mission was complete and she was about to take a flight back home. He had been in Kenya attending a friend’s wedding. They’d started dating soon after, and he’d proposed a year later. After they’d married, she’d moved from her hometown of Montclair, New Jersey, to start a life with him in Willow Gate.

And now, her gut was telling her something was wrong.

She stretched her arms above her head and tried to shake off her unsettling feeling. Still carrying the knot in her stomach, she got out of bed and went to check on her five-year-old daughter, Lynn, the love of her life.

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