Together, Again: tears, laughter, joy and hope from the much-loved Sunday Times bestselling author by Milly Johnson

Author:Milly Johnson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Published: 2022-09-29T00:00:00+00:00

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‘Up here,’ called Marsha, when she heard Jolene’s ‘Hello, hello.’

‘I’ll just put this shopping away first,’ Jolene shouted back. She saw that someone had already bought coffee and eggs. Nice eggs though, large free range, not the small, cheaper ones from battery farms that her mother bought. She’d had an omelette at home before setting off; Warren had made them. They’d sat at the dining table together and he’d said, ‘Well, this is nice, isn’t it? We don’t do it enough, do we, having breakfast together.’ And she’d wanted to ask him how often he had breakfast with her and if he cooked her fluffy omelettes in the morning after making love to her at night and telling her he loved her. But instead she’d smiled and said, ‘Yes, it is nice,’ and wondered which of them would win the Oscar for best acting.

He might have been telling the truth; he was good, credible but the doubt was always there and worms begat worms. Had he been unfaithful before he had confessed? Or were the first five years of her marriage a solid oasis in the middle of a quicksand that was waiting to engulf her?

He hadn’t mentioned the will again, but only because he’d retreated in order to regroup, decide on his next offensive. She didn’t know what it would be, only that he hadn’t given up, because that wasn’t how he rolled and Warren didn’t like things not going his way. They tended to because he made it so. When things really upset him, he imploded, internalising the problem to transform it into a fuel.

The last time it had happened was about three years ago. She’d tried to prise out of him what was making him crunch his teeth as he slept, but he told her in no uncertain terms to stop asking because she wouldn’t like the answer. She knew what that meant; it was something to do with his ‘other life’, the ‘outlet’ she’d agreed he could have in a weak moment and he’d told her that she could not change her mind once she’d given him her permission to ‘do what he had to’.

The irony was that it was he who needed her onside, his golden goose. The way they both behaved in this marriage would suggest otherwise. If she left him, he’d be up shit creek without his paddle. Maybe he’d be the one to leave her, now that her inheritance wasn’t what he was expecting. That should have made her elated, that he might finally make the decision she was too scared to make. But he had whittled at her confidence with sly scrapes of his knife for years; she’d barely noticed her self-esteem being peeled away bit by bit, letting him convince her that no one else would have her and that she would never survive alone. Then again, her success was growing with every book and he wasn’t going to untether a cash cow with a bounteous supply of milk.

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