AN IDEAL HUSBAND BY ERICA JAMES – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Erica James
- Language: English
- Genre: Contemporary romance
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It was a perfect March day and spring had arrived in all its glorious
splendour. Leaf buds were fattening on the hawthorn and cherry trees and in
the glittery bright sunshine patches of buttery-yellow cowslips were shyly
showing themselves in the grass verges. Daffodils were gaily bobbing their
heads as though in time to some secret rhythm playing on the breeze.
Everywhere Louisa Langford looked as she drove home from the farm
shop there was a sense of better things to come. Only a few months ago and
she would have cheerfully declared it one of those days in which to rejoice
and count one’s many blessings. Now it took a little more effort on her part
to do that, but she did it all the same because the alternative was she might
end up howling at the moon like a vengeful madwoman.
So far, and in possession of an iron-willed self-control, she had
managed to avoid shaming herself by behaving like a lunatic. Friends and
neighbours had offered shoulders to cry on and lavㄽished swathes of
sympathy on her, which was kind of them, but it wasn’t what she needed. It
was divorce she was going through, she wanted to tell them, not a terminal
illness.
This was, she knew all too well, a typical character trait of hers, the
desire to remain stoic in the face of excruciating bewilderment that this
could have happened to her. Divorce was what happened to other people,
not her. Not when she had truly believed that she and Kip had defied the
odds, that they had done everything right to ensure that while the marriages
of their friends and acquaintances sadly came unravelled, they were the
lucky ones. How stupid she now felt for holding such a disgustingly smug
and complacent view.
Every couple had their storms to weather and Louisa had taken pride in
the fact that whatever had been flung at her and Kip, they had coped. When
they’d had money problems, they’d tightened their belts and lived
accordingly. When the children had been young and pushed them to the
outer limits of their patience, they had gritted their teeth and dug deeper for
further patience.
Health problems and the death of their parents had all been
an intrinsic part of family life and, as worrying and as upsetting as those
events had been, they had pulled together as a couple and survived them.
You could only do that if the foundations of your marriage were rock solid
with love.
So what had gone wrong? That was what Louisa couldn’t understand.
Why, when they were on the verge of enjoying what other friends referred
to as the ‘golden years’ of retirement, had Kip thrown it all away? And for
what: a stupid, self-indulgent late mid-life crisis?
Nearly home now, she slowed her speed to round the bend of the tree-lined
lane and was met with a sight that had her letting out a cry of shocked
disbelief.
There in the front garden of Charity Cottage, her home for over
thirty years, was a for sale board. She had been gone for less than an hour,
but in that short space of time somebody had come here and pounded a
wooden post into the flowerbed. It might just as well have been hammered
into her heart
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