Chapter Nineteen
When Lena reached Melbourne, she turned off the freeway at Toorak Road as usual, but she wasn’t going home. The long and harrowing drive had given her time for some much-needed soul-searching. A subtle paradigm shift had occurred in her brain when she observed Mark’s crestfallen face after Beth’s furious outburst. There was no doubt about it – he was in love with his wife again.
Inconceivable as this was, it explained a lot: Mark’s loss of libido, his neglect of her needs, his impatience with her spending and his indifference to their son. It all fitted together in Lena’s mind like a completed jigsaw.
This distasteful realisation didn’t come as a complete surprise. Intuition told her that Mark no longer loved her – not the way he used to. She’d been pressing him to get
