Nick was packing to leave. After a few days back at Westbrook, he’d realised he could no longer live with his father. Even the cottage was too close. So he planned to move back to Kingfisher Valley, to Westcorp’s McClellan Vale estate, until he wound up his current job. Then he’d buy a place of his own. Del had often urged him to, but he’d always felt so comfortable at Westbrook. So completely at home. Not any longer. It was time to grow up. It’s not like he could feel his mother there any more, not since that day he found his father in bed with that woman He would have Mum’s diaries, and in a way, wherever the diaries were, his mother was too.
Last week, Carson had done as Nick asked. He’d publicly confessed to his infidelity, albeit under duress. But far from it being an atonement, Cars
