The Forever Home: An incredibly gripping psychological thriller with a breathtaking twist by Sue Watson

Author:Sue Watson [Watson, Sue]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781800192799
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2021-06-03T18:30:00+00:00

A week later, I still hadn’t heard from Mark, or his floozy (as my mother would have referred to her). I’d left several angry messages on my husband’s phone, emailed my solicitor to inform her of Erin’s comments on TV about me allowing them to have the house and how I was deeply concerned that they may find a loophole and get her wish. I also fired off an email to Estelle, threatening ‘her client’ with legal action if discussing me on air without my permission again. I was woolly on the word of law, but I was sure there was something libellous in their conversation. Estelle had clearly been involved in their ‘script’ and was straight on the phone.

‘Carly, my darling, thank you for your message, how gorgeous to hear from you! But what on earth is all this silly talk about legal action?’ To think I’d once quite liked her, amused by her caustic wit and salty bitterness regarding anyone on screen who wasn’t her client. Now I suspected I’d probably also been at the receiving end of some of those darkly humorous remarks, and that wasn’t so funny.

‘Estelle, this isn’t “silly talk”, as you put it,’ I snapped. I was angry that she’d tried to belittle me so early on in the conversation. ‘I have agreed to tell untruths, but only because I want to keep my home. However, if Mark or his… girlfriend,’ I said, resisting anything stronger, ‘dare to say anything – and I mean anything – that we haven’t agreed on, or they are derogatory in any way, I will instruct my lawyers to throw the book at you.’ I said this with confidence, though quite unsure of the legal terms and cursing my lawyer for not getting back to me with a list of long legal threats I could repeat to Estelle. I recalled she had a nasty little habit of putting the phone away from her ear and rolling her eyes to her assistant; she was probably doing that now. ‘Are you hearing me, Estelle? One more word about my feelings, my happiness or my home, and I promise you I will come for all of you. And please tell that child my husband’s sleeping with to back off with the dead rats and the breaking in and the weird notes. If she doesn’t stop, tell her from me she’ll be sorry!’ I clicked off my phone before she could respond, feeling sick with anger, blood pumping through my body.

I leaned on the kitchen counter, exhausted, emotional, and suddenly aware of Ryan, watching me.

‘Oh… you always seem to walk in on me yelling at someone down the phone,’ I sighed.

He nodded, staying in the doorway, half leaning on the door jamb. ‘Yeah.’ He gave a nervous laugh.

‘I don’t even know why I said that, just then, about Erin… but I think you’re right, about her trying to scare me and make me move. She’s been around us so long she knows about my fear of rats.

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