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 was the one who insisted it should be in my name alone.
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.
