Her Darkest Fear by Nina Manning

Author:Nina Manning [Manning, Nina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Boldwood Books
Published: 2020-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

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I stood in our bedroom with my case from the trip and I thought how time was such a strange concept, neither real nor hypothetical and how it felt like only a second ago I was just here, packing to leave. I looked at the sheets. I could tell they had been replaced with clean ones while I was away, a job I had intended to do before I left. The scent of the floral washing powder was filling the room. I looked round and realised that it also looked tidier and cleaner than usual, which was such a rarity because it was the one room I just didn’t have enough time to focus on and was usually a dumping ground for all our washing and anything that needed sorting out.

I laid the case on the floor, opened it up and began to pull out the bits of washing that needed to go in the laundry basket when out of the corner of my eye I saw something glistening. I moved over on my knees and picked up a small pink studded earring with the back missing. I examined it for a moment or two, trying to ascertain when I could have dropped it, and then it occurred to me it wasn’t mine at all. I didn’t own any pink studded earrings.

So if this earring didn’t belong to me, and Pixie didn’t have her ears pierced, it had to belong to another female. As I sat on the bedroom floor, which Damian hadn’t ever cleaned since we had got together, I didn’t need to spend too long trying to work out exactly what was going on here. I already had the image of Harriet from a few doors down in my head. Of course, he was shagging her, why wouldn’t he? And this dinner, this taking me out was obviously his way to cover up the guilt that he was shrouded in. I thought about the almost kiss I had with Mason and knew that whatever was happening with Damian and I right now and whomever this earring belonged to, she had been in my bedroom and that trumped my near miss with Mason.

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