My Sweet Revenge by Jane Fallon

Author:Jane Fallon
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781405917773
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2016-12-02T05:00:00+00:00

Part Two

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19

Saskia

Strike a match. Light the touchpaper. Sit back.

Although, to be honest, I’m a bit disappointed she’s not going to storm in and confront him straightaway. That’s what I was expecting to happen. What I was hoping for. Who knew she would be so calculated? I didn’t think she had it in her.

That’s the thing about Paula. She has hidden depths. When I first met her I thought she was a bit passive, a bit wet. She struck me as the kind of woman who would doggedly wait it out while her husband screwed around and then be there like a doormat when he decided to come home again.

Except, of course, Robbie wasn’t meant to be going home again. He was meant to be moving in with me once the coast was clear. And by ‘coast’, I mean Georgia, and by ‘clear’, I mean she’d left home and gone off to college or wherever she’s going. You know what I mean. I never was any good at metaphors. Or is that a simile? Anyway, you get my drift. Once Georgia had safely left the nest, unscathed by parental drama, Robert was planning to leave Paula, I was planning to leave Josh and we were going to set up home together.

That was the plan anyway.

Until, that is, he told me it was over a couple of weeks ago. Just like that. Out of nowhere. It was just before their stupid ‘staycation’, as Paula insisted on calling it. The day before, in fact. We were at my house. Robbie always got a thrill out of being in Josh’s bed. He hates Josh. I, despite everything, do not. Joshie is a thoroughly decent man. He’s kind, he’s sweet, he loves me. He’s good-looking, there’s no doubt about that. He’s successful in his own way. He’s just not very … exciting. He’s safe. And, at one point in my life, I thought that safe was what I wanted. Now I know better.

Anyway, Robbie and I were lying in bed in the middle of the day. I’ll admit I was a bit unsettled. All that talk from Paula about how attentive Robbie was suddenly being. All the hints about how he couldn’t keep his hands off her. It made me feel sick to my stomach but I couldn’t stop pressing her for details. I had to know the worst.

That’s what led me to making friends with her in the first place, if truth be told. I really had no interest in meeting up with some strange woman who I’d only ever spoken to because she spilt her champagne down me, except that I realized as soon as she suggested it that it was a golden opportunity to get an insight into Robbie’s life. He’s always been very closed about revealing personal things.

Back to the point – we’re lying in bed. Post-coital, just so you can picture it. Notice he got one last hurrah in before dumping me by the way, haha! I was asking him about something, I can’t even remember exactly what.

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