The Accidental Wife by Rowan Coleman

Author:Rowan Coleman
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781473527379
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

ALISON LOOKED AT herself in the wall of mirrors in the private exercise room as she waited for Kirsty. Her cheeks were pink, her eyes were hot and glittering and she hadn’t done a stroke of exercise yet.

Not twenty minutes ago she had asked Jimmy Ashley to have sex with her! She’d just gone and blurted it out as if she’d planned it. One minute he’d been telling her how much he loved Catherine, how Catherine was everything that she wasn’t, and the next, for some reason, she thought it would be a good idea to ask Jimmy if he wanted to have a teenage fling with her. No, that wasn’t true, she hadn’t been thinking at all.

It was as if she were going a little bit more mad as each minute passed. As if after fifteen years of keeping herself on track, suddenly she’d derailed and was careering out of control downhill. Alison had no idea what was happening with her and Marc because since they’d talked on the lawn in the morning mist they hadn’t spoken at all. She had barely even seen him. He’d spent the rest of the weekend at the dealership and when he came home he went to sleep in one of the guest bedrooms.

Somehow it was hard to believe that this was the beginning of the end of them, the start of unravelling her life from his. Then she had to go and do something stupid like ask Jimmy Ashley if he wanted to have sex with her, and she realised that everything was changing, including her, except she wasn’t changing into something new, but something old. It was as if returning to Farmington had restored her default factory settings. She felt stupid, crazy, impulsive and confused.

She felt seventeen years old again.

The door swung open and Kirsty walked in. Alison smiled at her. Kirsty didn’t smile back.

‘You might as well know I’m Catherine’s best friend,’ she said, crossing her arms under her chest. ‘I had no idea who you were when I started teaching you. But if it’s a question of sides then I’m on hers and don’t try and make it any different. Got it?’

Alison looked at her. ‘God, it’s knackering always being the villain,’ she said, and she sat down on the floor and wept.

‘Well,’ Kirsty said, handing her a tissue she had retrieved from her handbag, ‘I didn’t expect you to cry. That’s kind of thrown me a bit.’

‘All this is happening to me too, you know,’ Alison sobbed into a tissue. ‘I don’t want you to take sides. I don’t want there to be sides. It’s just that I’m breaking up with my husband and I’ve just come face to face with my best friend again after fifteen years and it’s very confusing. I’m not evil, you know. I’m not some crazy scheming witch. I’m just trying to sort out this whole mess and put things right again.’

‘I didn’t know you and him were breaking up,’ Kirsty said. ‘Catherine doesn’t know that.

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