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adultery. Naming and shaming will be very cathartic.’
    She had his attention now, she was pleased to note.
    ‘Hannah Whitestock – did Andrew ever find out I caught you both
in flagrante delicto
? And I can’t imagine Sir Martin Brierley will be all that pleased to hear his
daughter exposed as the little tart she is. I found some of the letters she sent you, you know. You really should have checked they’d all burned in the garden incinerator, but unfortunately
for you they didn’t. I kept them as a little insurance policy for the day when I might need them.’
    Selina almost wanted to laugh at the manifestation of fury on Zander’s face which not even the Botox could hold off. In twenty years, she had never seen him rattled before but it was a
sight worth waiting for.
    ‘You wouldn’t dare.’ His words carried a clear warning.
    ‘Now there’s a red rag to a bull.’
Wouldn’t dare? Ha!
The old feisty Selina was dormant not dead. Dragging a few names through some stinky, putrid mud was
exactly what she would do and enjoy every second of it. And from the way Zander’s eyeballs were bulging, it was evident he knew she had just picked up the gauntlet he had thrown down and was
about to run with it.
    ‘You bitch,’ he growled.
    ‘Oh, you ain’t seen nothing yet,’ replied Selina, taking with her that vision of his furious expression and wishing she could print it out and keep it. ‘See you in court,
bastard.’
    The couple from earlier on were just coming back down the corridor the other way when Selina walked out. She smiled at them.
    ‘Morning. Isn’t it a lovely day?’ she said as she slammed the cabin door hard behind her. They answered nervously and politely that it was indeed, as if she was the Terminator
and they were afraid of upsetting her.
    As Selina started to wheel her suitcases towards the lift, she started to quiver and a rush of euphoria swept through her. She’d done it – my GOD she had actually done it –
taken that first big step. She had seduced her best friend’s boyfriend and life had given her a twenty-year sentence for it, but now she was free. It was as if a great chain across her chest
had snapped and she could breathe to full capacity again. Even in the windowless lift, everything looked so bright her eyes hurt. She was euphoric and knew it must be the effects of shock but
didn’t care, it was better than any drug. She could have blessed her own stupidity for making her miss the ship in Malaga and shifting the track of her life. She only just managed to stop
herself jumping out of the lift and screeching with joy. Knowing her luck, the couple from the corridor would be there and Selina thought she’d given them quite enough to gossip about for one
day.
    She left her case at the reception desk, went into the nearest bar and ordered a brandy. She felt heady, light as if she were a balloon filled with helium. The sensation made her brain fuzzy
more than the brandy did. Then she rang Angie’s cabin to tell her what she had done and Angie and Gil both rushed down to keep her company until the cabin was ready.
    Her new cabin was much smaller than the one she had shared with Zander, and it only had a window and not a balcony, not that it mattered, because it was heaven at any size. As Angie helped Sel
hang up her scrunched-up clothes, Gil took it on himself to find the restaurant manager to sort out a change in her dining arrangements. Two people had recently left their table and so there was
room for Selina to join them every evening and enjoy the company of the merry people who sat with them.
    Angie left Sel to have a long-overdue soak in the bath and Selina had lain in the foamy water and cried her eyes out. The enormity of what she had set in motion dropped on her like a ten-tonne
brick. Logistically, the split would be horrendous and bitter. There would be so much to divide up and sort out. And could she really avoid seeing Zander for the remaining week and a

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