The Single Wife (Book Club Reads) by Ella King

Author:Ella King [King, Ella]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2021-05-02T22:00:00+00:00

Thirty-Two

Olivia was sure she was being watched.

It was a strange sensation really, and something she couldn’t quite put her finger on, but she was almost positive of it. She’d felt it the other day when she and Ellie were heading out to visit Kate and her new baby at the hospital, and she’d had the really weird feeling that someone was watching her every move.

She didn’t like it, not when the estate was normally so quiet, and people in the village generally left her alone. She gave a slight glance towards Catherine’s house, suddenly feeling guilty and understanding what it must have felt like when she was peeping out her window at them.

“She’ll be mad about you,” Matt had enthused one evening when Olivia made cautious enquiries about Catherine.

“You two must be very close,” Olivia ventured carefully, wondering why on earth an attractive young woman who by all accounts had the world at her feet had stepped into the role vacated by Matt’s wife.

He seemed adamant that they were just childhood friends, and their relationship became galvanised even more by their bereavment. But Olivia couldn’t help wondering if there was, or ever had been, anything else between them?

“She’s great,” Matt said, interrupting her thoughts. “She adores Adam, would do anything for him.”

“And did you two ever …?” She felt like a heel for even suggesting it when she saw his expression cloud over.

“She was Natasha’s best friend.”

“Of course.” Olivia wasn’t sure what that meant, but she suspected that he and Catherine had loved Natasha too much to betray her memory like that.

Still, she had to admit that she found it all very strange, and she wouldn’t mind meeting this Catherine, who seemed to have sacrificed quite a lot of her own life to accommodate a simple friendship. Then, she all of a sudden remembered the young guy sneaking – well, in retrospect she had only imagined he was sneaking – out of Catherine’s house that morning a while back. She was making too much of this – Catherine might be a very good-looking girl who was being supportive to her friend, but she obviously wasn’t living like a nun either.

And of course, if she was such a good friend and as lovely and obliging as Matt was saying, then Olivia was sure that the two of them would get on like a house on fire.

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