A Sudden Betrayal
Dr. Valerie Warren had a good understanding of infidelity, gained from years of experience sitting listening to people in troubled marriages. She knew the signs to look out for, the consequences of seemingly innocent encounters that could lead to an affair, and the inevitable fallout from an affair. She also had a hard-line approach to adultery, one she’d laid out to Robbie when he proposed to her some two years ago.
“If you fall for someone else I don’t care, I may not even fight for your love but if you fall into bed with someone else and don’t tell me first, I will divorce you. I may forgive you, eventually but I will never forget your betrayal.”
It was a memory uppermost in her mind as Valerie regarded the fresh-faced young woman whose car had been damaged in an ac
