Parents and Teachers: A Glamorous, Red-Hot, London-based Novel (Love in London Book 1) by Sara Madderson

Parents and Teachers: A Glamorous, Red-Hot, London-based Novel (Love in London Book 1) by Sara Madderson

Author:Sara Madderson [Madderson, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-09-17T04:00:00+00:00


22

JENNA

The fog of grief was so thick she couldn’t see through it, let alone navigate a path out of it. In the space of five minutes, she’d lost everything she cared about: Jackson and her vocation. That was two weeks ago now, and the fog wasn’t lifting. She should have got straight out of London and hidden at her parents’ place in Suffolk, but she was too mortified to face them. She’d told them she’d clashed with the headmaster and had to leave, but not about Jackson. They’d have been horrified to hear she’d got involved with a married man, a father. They’d be ashamed of her.

She’d tried to regain some kind of perspective over the relationship. She’d known it was wrong, and she’d also known it had no future. Despite the words he’d said to her, despite the magic when they were together, she’d always known it could amount to nothing in the long term. They’d both been in a bubble; Hans Place had been a fairytale refuge for them to cook and goof around and make love and be normal. In hindsight, it had been a false cocoon; it couldn’t have protected her from the heartache that would inevitably engulf her.

In the long days and nights following her dismissal, the most confounding part of the situation had been Jackson’s involvement. She still couldn’t believe she might have been mistaken in his feelings for her. If she’d been a neutral third party, the whole thing would have sounded highly suspect, but she’d been there, in their cosy little nest, with him. She’d sensed his need for her; each morning she’d found his body wrapped around her, his arms clinging to her desperately. She’d read the message in his eyes every time he’d woken up to find her next to him. That was another thing—he’d started openly spending entire nights with her, even mid-week. If anything, he’d been in deeper than her.

The last evening they’d spent together had been perfectly, wonderfully normal. They’d cooked a Thai stir-fry and caught up on the latest episode of Graham Norton on BBC iPlayer. Jackson had been full of fascinating gossip into the workings of the show and the intensive preparation its researchers did for each guest. He’d been on it a few times.

That night, they’d brushed their teeth together like an old, married couple and climbed into bed. Lying in his bed with her legs and arms wrapped around him, his forearms flanking her head and his mouth on hers as he moved inside her, had been an almost spiritual experience. She’d felt surrounded by him, consumed by him. Afterwards, she could have sworn his eyes had been wet as he’d stroked her face and whispered her name over and over again.

Fast-forward two weeks, and the closest she could get to him was watching his movies and cuddling her bear. The bear had quickly become her most treasured possession. She watched all five movies in the Adrenalin series, even though she usually hated action movies.



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