Impulse (50 page)

None of it is important any longer. I smile now at my husband. Such a beautiful man and he’s mine and loyal and steadfast and he will never hurt me.

And I will never hurt him, ever again. I know he’s sensed there was another man and he’s felt helpless because he also knew this man was deep in my mind.

That man is gone and Charles will come to realize that. I’ll make sure of it. And he’s proved to me that I’m the only woman in his life. He’d broken off with his mistress, Claudia, many months before.

And Margaret said, “Hello, Charles. I love you.”