Everything in me went cold, from the shoulders down.
Lorna gave a low little laugh and said: good. Is the apartment on the coast in her name yet?
He said: it is.
He said: I told her it would make her feel secure. She thinks I bought it for her. But I kept every receipt.
He said: give it a few months, we say we’re incompatible, and I use the purchase records to take the property when we split.
That apartment was our wedding present to ourselves.
He sat in a solicitor’s office in the November and said, out loud, in front of that solicitor, that a woman should always have something of her own.
I cried in the car afterwards.
I believed it was love. It was a plan with a solicitor as a witness.
PART 2
Lorna took another drag and said: she’s so easy to manage.
