The Sins of the Mother by Danielle Steel

Author:Danielle Steel
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
ISBN: 9780345535788
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2012-10-30T07:00:00+00:00

Phillip waited until he was in his car to call his brother. He had thought about what to do about what he’d discovered. He thought the others should know. He knew what a bleeding heart Liz was, and she’d probably think it was touching or romantic. He didn’t. And he hadn’t spoken to his sister Cass in years. But he wanted to tell John. He was sure he’d be as outraged as Phillip was. And Phillip didn’t buy the story that she’d been faithful to their father. He wondered now if that was why Cass looked so different from the rest of them. Maybe that was why Olivia had never been home. Maybe she’d been screwing around for years. Who knew what had really gone on? He felt sick when he thought of finding her kissing Peter. They had looked passionate as they embraced. Phillip’s stomach turned over when he remembered it. It was seven o’clock when he drove home, one in the morning in Paris. He called John at the Ritz, where he was staying with Sarah and Alex. His brother sounded sleepy when he answered.

“Something wrong?” John asked his brother quickly. Their grandmother was ninety-five, after all, and their mother was now ten years older than their father when he died. He was always afraid of something happening to them, or his wife or son. But they were in Paris with him, so he knew it wasn’t them. And a business crisis was always possible too. “Are you okay?” John asked, sitting up in bed, as he turned on the light. Sarah was sound asleep, dead to the world.

“No, I’m not. And you won’t be either when I tell you what’s going on.”

“Shit. Granibelle or Mom?” Phillip was hitting his worst fears, and John hadn’t picked up on the anger in his voice.

“Our mother. She’s having an affair with Peter Williams. She has been for ten years, or so she says. Who knows how long it’s been going on, or if she cheated on Dad before that, when she was never home.” It was a lot to absorb all at once, as John tried to sort through what he was saying.

“Mom’s having an affair?” It sounded unlikely to him.

“Yes, she is,” Phillip confirmed in an undertaker’s voice.

“How do you know?”

“I found them wrapped around each other in her office, when I walked in on them an hour ago.”

“They were having sex in her office?” John sounded stunned.

“No, they were kissing,” Phillip said precisely. He would have had a heart attack if they’d been making love. “She admitted the affair to me after that. He left, and she and I had a talk about it. And he’s married, if you’ll recall.”

“Yeah, I remember that. He’s a nice guy, though. At least he’s not some fortune hunter thirty years younger than she is.” He knew their mother was too sensible for that, but he was actually surprised to hear that she was romantically involved. He thought all she cared about was her work.

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