The Missing Wife by Sheila O'Flanagan

Author:Sheila O'Flanagan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2018-02-06T00:00:00+00:00

She stayed at the beach until late in the evening, and by the time she got home again, she had convinced herself that calling Shona was a good idea. Nevertheless, as she sat at the window, her phone in her hand, she could feel the beat of her heart at the base of her throat, and her mouth was so dry that she had to take continuous sips from the small bottle of water by her side.

“In a minute,” she muttered to herself. “First things first…”

She opened her email app on the phone.

There were plenty of new promotional emails from her usual sites, and two new personal ones. She felt her stomach clench as she saw Vince’s most recent one, telling her all he wanted was to sort out whatever was wrong between them.

She read it a few times, noticing how different it was in tone to the first ones he’d sent. Maybe he really was beginning to understand how she felt. Maybe he could see why she’d done what she’d done. Maybe he was realizing that his behavior had been completely over the top. Did he want to fix it? If she went back and talked to him, would it be different? The way it was at the start, when he’d loved her and wanted nothing but the best for her? After all, he was a good person when you got to know him…She closed her eyes. She didn’t know if he was a good person or not. She couldn’t be objective about that anymore. But he wasn’t good for her, she’d learned that much over the past five years. So she shouldn’t, couldn’t allow herself to think any different. Because this was what had happened so many times before. She’d be unhappy and he’d say something, one thing, to make her feel as though it was all her own fault, and the next thing she knew she was apologizing and trying to make it up to him and wondering how it was she always got it so wrong. And all she wanted to do was make it better.

But she never could.

She opened her eyes and read the second email.

From: [email protected]

To: [email protected]

Subject: Where are you?

Hi Imogen. This isn’t an email I thought I’d be sending. I’ve been talking to Vince. He says you’ve disappeared and is trying to imply you’re mentally unstable. I think you’ve left him. Fair play to you if you have—it’s probably the least mentally unstable thing you’ve ever done! I know you’re not supposed to say horrible things about anyone’s ex in case they get back together, but truly, after you met him it was like all the light had gone from inside you. Talking to you was like talking to a shell. Anyway, I thought you should know that he’s looking for you. He wanted to know places you’ve lived. I told him I couldn’t remember. Which I can’t really, France is France, n’est-ce pas? I also thought you should know that he got in touch with me through Facebook.

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