A Perfect Family by Penny - The Crightons 01 Jordan

Author:Penny - The Crightons 01 Jordan [Jordan, Penny - The Crightons 01]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-04-16T00:46:00+00:00

He had just removed the file when the study door opened. He froze as he heard Olivia exclaiming, 'Tiggy... Oh, Uncle Jon, it's you.'

'Yes. I was just getting some papers...your mother...'

Olivia frowned as she watched the awkward way he tried to conceal the buff file he had removed from her father's desk amongst some of the papers he had picked up.

'I, er, promised your mother I'll ring the bank in the morning.'

'Won't you need to take Dad's bank statements, then?' Olivia suggested quietly.

'What? Oh yes...' He reached for them almost reluctantly as though he didn't want to touch them, Olivia noticed.

Her instincts warned her that something was wrong. Jon looked pale, ill almost, but then none of them was exactly behaving normally at the moment. Take Saul for instance. She had telephoned him at Queensmead to discover that he wanted her advice.

'Hillary and I have decided to separate,' he had told her tautly.

'She wants to go back to the States. As yet we haven't made any plans to divorce, but I suspect it will only be a matter of time before we do so. I'm going to need a good divorce lawyer, Livvy.

I want full custody of the kids. There's no way they're going to be passed between us like parcels and no way do I intend to be an absentee father. You're more up to date with these things than me.

Is there someone you can recommend?'

'I'm like you. I work in industry,' Olivia reminded him. 'Wouldn't Max have more idea?'

'Max!' Saul had snorted with derisive contempt. 'The only ideas he's got are how to extract more money out of Ben. Come over if you can, Livvy, please. I need someone to talk to...or are you and Caspar...?'

'Caspar's gone out,' Olivia told him shortly, not wanting to tell him that she and Caspar had quarrelled.

'So you can come over, then?'

'Yes,' she agreed after a small pause, 'I can.'

She had gone into the study thinking her mother was there and intending to tell her that she was going out. She hadn't expected to find Jon there and expected even less to see the almost guilty way he seemed to be furtively going through her father's papers.

Tiggy appeared at the door. 'Did you find what you were looking for?' she asked Jon.

'Yes, yes, I have,' he told her, adding, 'Look, Tiggy, I must go.'

'Yes, I know you must,' she agreed wanly. 'Jenny will be cross with me for keeping you so long, but you will come with me when I go to see David tomorrow, won't you?'

'Yes, of course I will,' Jon assured her gently.

'I'm going to Queensmead to see Saul,' Olivia told her mother, then turned to Jon and asked him quietly, 'What time shall I be at the office in the morning?'

A shadow crossed his face before he reluctantly answered, 'I normally like to be there around eight- thirty.'

'Fine, eight-thirty it is,' Olivia agreed.

'Are you sure you're doing the right thing?' Olivia asked Saul, concern etching her features. He had

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