The Life Sentence by Jackie Kabler

Author:Jackie Kabler [Kabler, Jackie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780008544560
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Felicity messages back within seconds.

OMG! That sounds promising. What are you going to do if he says yes? Felicity xx

We’re already at Chiswick roundabout, and the shop’s just a minute away now, so my response is brief.

Don’t worry. I have a plan x

TWENTY-TWO

Jack

‘Great. Speak soon. Have a good day!’

Jack ends his video call and reaches for his water bottle. It’s shortly after 3am on Wednesday and he’s just finished a meeting with a supplier in Hong Kong, where it’s a few minutes past ten in the morning. Down the hallway, Heather is asleep in his bed. She came round after work last night and, instead of going out for dinner, they decided to chill in front of the TV and order in a Thai takeaway. It had been an enjoyable enough evening, but Heather seemed a little tense, and he wondered if she’d already discovered the tracker he’d put on her phone. Maybe not. The first time they dated, she found it and challenged him about it; this time, he’s hidden it in a folder of random apps he thinks it’s unlikely she uses, on the very last page of her app library. If she’s found it, she hasn’t said anything, but she still didn’t seem quite herself last night. She was, he thinks, a little quieter than usual, less affectionate.

When they went to bed though, the sex was still as good as ever, and he wonders now if he imagined her earlier reserve. Maybe it was because they were in the lounge and she knows about the camera. Or perhaps she doesn’t… Christ, he fancies her. There’s always been something there with this one, something he’s never really managed to find with any of the others. His girlfriends are always beautiful, always smart; Jack Shannon doesn’t do ugly or dumb. But Heather’s got something extra. It’s not only their shared love of books and art and good food, although that’s great. There’s just a feistiness about her, a spirit he craves to tame, while at the same time half hoping he can’t. He doesn’t like her questions though. When she starts trying to probe into his past, asking about his family. About his mother. No, he doesn’t like that at all. If he does decide he can trust her enough to talk to her about… about that, it will be on his terms, at a time that suits him. But does he trust her? He still can’t make up his mind. He’s watched back the security camera footage from when she stayed at the weekend, and there’s nothing there except her pottering around the house and garden, and an amusing incident in the kitchen when she tried to make a smoothie and didn’t put the lid on the blender properly. The resultant swearing and banging about as she cleaned up the mess made him first smile, and then pause for thought. Could that have been deliberate? Could the smoothie mix have been deliberately aimed at the clock face to

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