MY DISTRACTED MIND resulted in a half-hearted attempt at cooking dinner. I forgot about the sausages I’d put in the oven to brown, and we ended up eating a couple of gammon omelettes each. The entire time, Ethan nagged about how dinner never burned when he had cooking duty.
As soon as the last of the meal had been eaten, I cleared the table and turned to study the three men, left to right—Ethan, Nathan, Sean. “I don’t want to tell you I told you so, but I did.” The more I’d thought about it over the course of the day, the more annoyed I’d grown. If they’d all listened to me, instead of laughing at the ridiculousness of my unease about Marianne, Josh wouldn’t have been in such a mess. “I told you there was something wrong with her. The first day I saw her, I told you there was something fu
