“I hope so. I intend to.” She paused. “Are you going to inform Winston all this?”

“Positively. No extra secrets and techniques. I plan on calling him after we get again from our stroll. I’m hoping he may go to on the weekend.” Cecilia gave some thought to her daughter’s state of affairs. “What are your plans? The place are you going to dwell? Or are you going to ask Theo to go away?”

“I don’t know. I didn’t precisely plan any of this. I didn’t give it any thought in any respect. Leaving was an impulse.” They strolled nearer to the water’s edge. “However I don’t remorse it. I’m unhappy, however I’ve to just accept that Theo and I want various things. He isn’t in a position to give me what I need. And I don’t suppose he’s all in favour of making an attempt. Possibly we’ve simply grown aside. Or perhaps I’ve modified, and he hasn’t. I don’t know, and I don’t suppose it actually issues now.”

Cecilia seen the tall male determine, hovering uncertainly on the fringe of the dunes.

“I wouldn’t be so certain about that.” She touched her daughter’s arm. “You’ve got a customer. He’s right here.”

“Who’s right here?”

“Theo.”

“Theo?” Kristen turned her head. Her eyes widened. “No, that’s not doable.”

“Why isn’t it doable?”

“As a result of he’s imagined to be working. And nothing comes between Theo and his work. Additionally I didn’t inform him the place I used to be going. How can he be right here? Why would he be right here?” Kristen regarded panicked.

“I assume he’s right here as a result of he desires to speak to you. And provided that he’s pushed all the way in which right here, and presumably deserted work so as to do it, it is best to in all probability at the very least take heed to what he has to say.” And Cecilia hoped with all her coronary heart that the person would say the proper factor. “Preserve an open thoughts, Kristen. If there may be one factor I discovered from all these years along with your father, it’s {that a} bump within the observe doesn’t need to derail the practice. No matter you determine is greatest for you, you’ve my assist. However take heed to him first. Take him all the way down to the seaside. Sea air and the view all the time makes issues clearer someway.”

She had a sense that it was going to take greater than a breeze and a seaside to repair the dents in her daughter’s marriage, however it was a begin.

22

Kristen

Kristen walked again throughout the sand to the cottage. She felt nervous and on edge.

She hadn’t anticipated Theo turning up right here. She didn’t know the way she felt about that. She wasn’t prepared. She hadn’t thought by means of what she would say when she noticed him subsequent.

She had no concept what she wished.

She’d been so offended the night time she’d left, however the warmth had cooled and left solely unhappiness.

She wasn’t able to hiding her emotions. She was unhappy, and she or he knew the unhappiness confirmed. And perhaps that was all proper. The years they’d spent collectively would have been diminished if she hadn’t felt unhappy. Total, they’d been good years.

She lifted her hand and scraped her hair again from her face. Her often rigorously styled hair was windblown and tangled. She wasn’t sporting a scrap of make-up. Her flip-flops had been dangling from her fingers and her skirt flapped in opposition to her legs within the breeze. Possibly this was what it got here all the way down to. Them being their most simple selves, devoid of artifice.

“Theo.” She stored her voice regular. “What are you doing right here? You’re imagined to be working.”

“I discovered somebody to cowl for me.”

Her mouth virtually fell open. He’d requested somebody to cowl for him? She couldn’t consider a time when he’d accomplished that. “Why?”

“As a result of I wanted to see you. To speak to you.”

“How did you discover me?”

“I tracked your cellphone. Don’t be offended. It’s the primary and solely time in our marriage that I’ve accomplished such a factor and in order for you me to go away immediately then I’ll.”

“Why didn’t you simply name and ask the place I used to be?”

“I used to be afraid you wouldn’t reply. I used to be afraid you wouldn’t need to converse to me.” He took a breath. “And I wouldn’t have blamed you if that was the case.”

He appeared nervous round her. Theo, the calmest most in management individual she knew, was nervous to be speaking to her. His hair was ruffled and a few buttons on his shirt had been undone, as if he’d wearing a rush and hadn’t trouble glancing in a mirror.

“You may have come after you’d completed work.”

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