Chapter 38
‘It’s high time that awful woman left, Emma. Making eyes at Harry and drinking all day long. It’s a disgrace.’
‘We can’t just throw her out.’
‘Why not?’ Mum scowled. ‘If she tells me about how she lunched with Bob Hope one more time, I’ll murder her myself. Let her go home to her husband where she belongs.’
If only it was that simple. Emma finished brushing her mother’s hair and twisted it up in a neat bun. She didn’t want Kitty back with Tom. He didn’t deserve that, but she didn’t want her living here any longer either.
Emma kissed her mother. ‘See you tonight, Mum. Say goodbye to Elsie for me. I’m off to my course.’
It was three months now since Kitty had dropped her bombshell; setting Harry implacably against his brother, and unleashing in him a boiling hostility that f
