Uncommon Enemy by Alan Judd

Author:Alan Judd [Judd, Alan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781849832748
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK

Later that night, in his room in the Chesham, she sat up abruptly in bed. Just enough city light showed through the curtains for him to make out the mole on her right shoulder blade. He had forgotten the mole. Her body had the strangeness and familiarity of home after a long absence. He stroked her back, feeling each rib with his finger-tips. She had lost weight in the decade since he had last done that.

‘I thought you were asleep,’ he said.

‘I was, then I was suddenly awake, hearing myself speaking. Perhaps I was dreaming. I heard myself saying, “I’m the first woman in my family ever to have done this.” Adultery, I mean.’

‘You can’t know that.’

‘I do.’

He ran his fingers down her back again.

She turned and leaned over him, her breasts pendulous. ‘I can’t leave him, you know. Nigel. He’s – he needs me. He wants children.’ She pushed her hair away from his face. ‘No need to look so alarmed, it’s not about to happen again. Your timing’s better this time.’

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