Chapter Forty-Two
“Are you all right?” Ash put a hand on Gloria’s knee. “You look like you’re about to be sick.”
Gloria hadn’t expected this trip back to Murraywood to be a white-knuckle ride. Maybe it was because she was so used to driving herself. Or maybe Ash was simply a terrible driver. The friend who’d loaned her his car must not have been in the passenger seat with Ash Cooper at the wheel before.
“Can you pull over, please?”
Ash barely looked in her rear-view mirror before pulling the car to a stop on the hard shoulder. Gloria couldn’t fall apart on the motorway like this. Grateful though she was for the extra time with Ash, she wished she could have taken the train back home.
“What’s wrong?” Ash sounded as though she genuinely had no idea.
“I hate to break this to you, sweeth
