Third to Die by Third to Die (epub)

Author:Third to Die (epub)
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: urn:ean:9781474028318
Publisher: Carina UK
Published: 2015-01-07T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Love Will Tear Us Apart

Welcome to Avalon.

The sign was faded but still readable. As Aiden drove past it, he felt his stomach tighten. In Greensburg the distance had helped him forget about his argument with Isla, but now he was headed straight for the maelstrom of his marriage and he didn’t know what to expect.

He knew he was too tired to argue. The long drive, coupled with the weight of unanswered questions surrounding Justin’s death, had exhausted him. Numbly he turned the corner and saw his house up ahead. He suddenly wished that Avalon was larger, that the drive would take longer, but he had to accept that he had arrived. He was home.

Upon entering the house, Aiden was met with complete stillness. The only sound was the ticking of the clock hanging in the hallway. Aiden dropped his bag by his feet and paused in the doorway. The tranquillity made him uneasy. He’d expected fireworks. He thought that the moment he opened the door Isla would set upon him with a ferocious intensity, telling him that they were both partly to blame for the lie she’d felt she had to weave. But his wife wasn’t there. The house felt empty.

“Isla?” Aiden called her name and cautiously stepped further into his home. “Isla, I’m back. Where are you?”

As he spoke, he walked. He glanced into the small kitchen. The table was bare, the sides clean and clutter-free. No Isla. He progressed towards the living room. The door was closed and as he opened it he thought he heard a sharp intake of breath.

“Isla?” he stepped through the door and surveyed the room. His wife was sat on the sofa. Her deep-red hair was collected at the base of her neck in a tidy bun and she was wearing jeans and a jacket. Before Aiden could wonder why she was wearing a jacket inside the house, he spotted the three suitcases stacked neatly on the floor in front of her.

“Isla?” he repeated her name, trying to make sense of what he was seeing.

“Hey, Aid,” Isla lifted her head to look at him. Her voice was hoarse but her eyes showed no signs of tears. He could tell that she wasn’t wearing any make-up which allowed her natural beauty to shine through.

“What’s going on?” Aiden glanced at the suitcases. Were they for him? Did she want him to leave?

“While you were gone I did some thinking.” As Isla spoke, she began to play nervously with her hands. Aiden carefully lowered himself on to the sofa beside her, listening intently to what his wife was saying.

“I kept thinking about what I did,” Isla explained. “About how I told you such an awful lie just to…keep you here.”

“Isla—”

“When did we become these people, Aid?” She didn’t let him speak. She delivered the question and looked at him with fierce intensity burning behind her eyes.

“I’m not the sort of woman who lies about being pregnant to keep her man. Yet I did it. I knowingly did it.

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