Michelle Reid - The Ultimate Betrayal

She was almost twenty-five years old, for God’s sake! And here she was, a dowdy little housewife with three children and a husband who…

‘I’m going alone!’ she raked at him. ‘It won’t hurt you to have the children to yourself for once!’

‘I never said it would!’ he sighed impatiently. ‘But Rachel, you’ve never—’

‘Exactly!’ Jumping up she spun away from him when he made a grab for her, concern raking at his taut face. ‘While you’ve been busy making your fortune, chasing your personal rainbows and having your affairs,’ she threw at him bitterly, ‘I’ve been quietly sitting here in this damned house—stagnating!’

‘Don’t be stupid!’ He made another lunge for her wrist and caught it this time. ‘This is ridiculous. You’re behaving like a child! It—’

‘But that’s just it, Daniel, don’t you see?’ she cried, appealing for his understanding even while rebellion ran crazily through her veins. ‘That is exactly what I am— a child! A very spoiled, very overprotected child! I never grew up because I’ve never been given the chance to grow up! I was seventeen when I married you!’ she choked out wretchedly. ‘Still at school! And, before you came along, my parents used to wrap me in cotton wool! My God, what a shock it must have been to them when they discovered their sweet little innocent daughter had been sleeping with the big bad wolf without them knowing it!’

He laughed; she knew he couldn’t help it because her description of himself was so damned accurate that it was either laugh or weep.

‘So, I get pregnant,’ she went on tightly, ‘and swap one set of parents for another set—you and your mother!’

‘Now that’s not true, Rachel,’ Daniel protested. ‘I’ve never looked on you as a child. I—’

‘Liar!’ she declared. ‘You damned hypocritical liar! And you know what makes you a liar, Daniel?’ she demanded shrilly. ‘It’s the way you’re beginning to panic because I want to spend some time on my own—because it could be Kate making the demand by the way you’re reacting!’

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