The Marriage Trap by Sheryl Browne

Author:Sheryl Browne [Browne, Sheryl]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Thriller, Mystery
ISBN: 9781786818959
Goodreads: 46200713
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2019-07-30T00:00:00+00:00

Twenty-Six

DIANA

Recognising the ringtone she’d set to play when Karla called, Diana abandoned her task of cleaning the fridge to take the call. Karla had been in a terrible state after discovering what Jason had been doing in his office, rather than going home to her. Diana was glad she’d been there, babysitting Holly and Josh, when her daughter had arrived back home. She’d been able to persuade her to take a breath and a step back. Screaming at him and demanding explanations, she’d managed to convince her, would only make him defensive, possibly driving something that might actually have no traction.

Diana prayed it didn’t. She was still struggling to believe it. Jason seemed to care so deeply for Karla. It had been clear to Diana how much he’d loved her from outset. There was no mistaking a man’s love for a woman, and Jason’s feelings for Karla had been obvious. He’d fought so hard for her, despite Robert’s determination to split them up, which Diana had never condoned. As far as Diana was concerned, fate had brought them together. They’d created a child. After all Karla had already lost, how cruel would it have been for her to lose the man she loved too? It was possible that Jason had grown weary with the battle, she supposed, this constant war between him and Robert, the arguments he and Karla were having, more and more lately, and his fight to save his failing business. Even so, for him to have made the decision to cheat on Karla in such a cold, calculating way… That was more Robert’s domain than Jason’s.

‘Damn.’ Missing the call as she struggled to remove her rubber gloves, Diana cursed her obsessive need to always be busy while Robert was off doing what she knew very well he was, and then selected Karla’s number and called her straight back.

‘Mum?’ Karla jumped on the call, her voice small and tearful. ‘I wondered where you were.’

Diana frowned in concern. ‘Here,’ she assured her. ‘Where I always am.’ That was to say, cleaning the house so thoroughly you could perform open heart surgery on the kitchen floor without risk of infection, driving herself more insane than Robert had already driven her and biding her time until she could leave her husband to stew in his own mess, but Karla didn’t need to know any of that. ‘What’s happened, lovely?’ she asked her gently.

Hearing a long intake of breath, Diana waited. And then, ‘Do you think I’m like Dad, Mum?’ Karla blurted.

Well, that was something she absolutely didn’t have to tear herself up about, Diana thought angrily. ‘If you mean do you run roughshod over people’s feelings, then no, Karla, I don’t,’ she told her firmly. ‘You’ve always been caring towards other people. Too caring sometimes. Why on earth would you imagine you’re not?’

‘Because I don’t think I’m a very nice person,’ Karla said, sounding so uncertain that Diana found herself cursing Jason, despite her gut feeling that he would never trample over other people’s feelings either.

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