No-One Ever Has Sex in the Suburbs: A Brand New Very Funny Romantic Novel by Tracy Bloom

Author:Tracy Bloom
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2015-06-22T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Ben winced as he heard the scrunch of gravel under the car tyres. Nothing heralded your arrival at a house brimming with wealth and success more than the sound of a deep gravel drive. He pulled up outside the glossy black door guarded by pillars and topiary and switched the engine off. It felt like a lifetime ago when he’d last sat there following his hasty exit from the dinner party, having spotted that Matthew had an identical tattoo to Katy. It had been a stormy night and he remembered watching two hanging baskets sway precariously on wrought-iron hooks as he waited for Katy to make her excuses and join him to explain herself. She’d admitted they’d been a couple, as teenagers, as they sat there with the wind howling around them. She’d explained that Matthew didn’t want Alison to know, as she was prone to jealousy. He’d accepted the explanation and moved on, right up until the hurt had exploded inside him on discovering they’d slept together just a few months previously. He’d never felt like that before. He was traumatised at how much pain her indiscretion had caused him. Finding out she’d slept with Matthew had woken something up inside his twenty-something laid-back self. Made him understand he had to grow up, admit he had feelings and deal with them. It had shocked him into realising that he was in love with her. A situation he’d never had to address before.

Millie was gurgling in her car seat in the back, oblivious to the history that was playing through his mind as he revisited the place where he’d sat nearly six months ago at the moment when his life had started to unravel. They’d got through it, though, hadn’t they? They’d kept it together, and here he was now, engaged to Katy and the father of a beautiful baby girl. So what was he doing here taking this risk of blowing it all up again? This was wrong. This was a massive mistake. He scratched a non-existent itch on his head, trying to work out how on earth he had got himself into this position. He unclipped his seat belt and leapt out of the car, leaving Millie safe inside. Time to put a stop to this before it got out of control.

He knocked firmly then took a step back from the door. He cleared his throat, glancing back at Millie to make sure she was okay. Half a minute and he would be back in the car and on his way back home, having thanked Alison for her kind offer of support but he’d decided it wasn’t fair on her.

He heard the clicking of several locks and then there stood Alison, a screaming baby in one arm whilst wails could be heard coming from somewhere behind her.

‘You’re late,’ she said, thrusting wailing baby number one into his arms. ‘You’ll have to wait whilst I feed them now. Just hold on to Rebecca whilst I get George. If you go in the kitchen there’s a rug with some toys on it.

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