No Turning Back by Susan Lewis

Author:Susan Lewis
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781409022930
Publisher: Random House

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‘Are you sure you want to do this?’ Don was saying as he walked to the door with Patty. ‘You know it could backfire badly.’

‘That’s a chance I’m prepared to take,’ she told him, flicking a switch to light up the barn’s outside courtyard. ‘I know she’ll lock all the doors before I can reach the house if she sees my car coming, so I have to do it this way.’

She was glad he didn’t point out that she could always go to the shop, but he’d know that it was far too public a venue for her to try and talk to her sister there. They needed privacy and no interruptions, and this was the only way she could think of to make it happen when her every attempt to contact Eva in the past few days had been met with a slamming down of the phone, or a complete refusal to answer her emails and texts.

Coming to the Mercedes with her, Don opened the door and as she slipped into the driver’s seat he said, ‘I could call to tell her I’m coming, but I think that kind of subterfuge would be taking it too far.’

‘It would,’ she agreed, already feeling bad enough about the trick she was preparing to play. Gazing up at him in the lamplight, she put a hand out for his and brought it to her cheek. ‘Wish me luck,’ she whispered.

Leaning in through the window, he pressed his mouth tenderly to hers. ‘Try not to let her hurt you,’ he said softly.

Knowing it was inevitable, and thinking that it would be no more than she deserved, Patty started the engine and put the car into reverse.

‘Hang on,’ he said, before she could pull away, ‘I’m going to follow in your car and wait in the layby across the road.’

‘Why?’

‘I don’t know. I’ll just feel better if I’m close by.’

Loving him for his concern, while aching for her sister, Patty watched him go to lock up the house then turned the Mercedes round as he got into her Audi.

As she drove out of the courtyard to head down the stony lane towards the village, she was once again starting to question the wisdom of turning up on Eva like this.

‘To be frank,’ Coral had said when Patty had spoken to her earlier, ‘I think you’re probably the last person she wants to see right now, but it’s your decision. Just try to remember she’s your sister, not your daughter, which is how you sometimes come across, and I get the impression she really won’t appreciate that with the way things are.’

Patty knew it was good advice, since it was true, she did sometimes forget that Eva was capable of standing on her own two feet. However, Patty was in no doubt of how hard Eva would be finding it to cope right now, since no one knew better than Patty how damaging her younger sister’s past tragedies had been, and how likely they were to start causing chaos for her now.

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