CHAPTER 30
THE DENNEYS HAD left the house spick and span. The usual decaying blanket of autumn leaves had been swept up from the patio, and even the rusting barbeque looked as if it had had a makeover. Lyn heard Neil’s van pull up on the driveway, and opened the front door. She sighed with relief when she saw he was alone, but noticed he was unsmiling as he opened the car door.
“Alright?”
She heard his familiar voice and for a split second it was as though things were as they used to be, and she was standing on their doorstep welcoming him home from a trip away. A trip that he’d made to see his mistress?
“Yes I’m fine. How are you?”
“I’m going to be a father next May.”
“Congratulations. Now we know whose fault it was that we never had children.” She felt a stab of jealousy at t
