Summer at Coastguard Cottages: a feel-good holiday read. Jennifer Bohnet
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and Wills was in the sitting room watching the British Grand Prix. Two dozen sausage rolls were baking in the oven ready for him to take to that evening’s sundowner. Karen, in the kitchen, was trying not to think about recent events and taking her frustration out on the bread dough she was attempting to thump into submission.
It was impossible to stop thoughts about Derek selling the house crowding into her mind, though. How far did he mean to downsize? Smaller house in the same area? A flat on the coast? A cottage in the country? A house each out of the proceeds? Was that what he was really telling her by putting the house up for sale without her knowledge? That this trial separation could truly be the beginning of the end?
She banged the dough down hard onto the board and pushed her fist into it. He’d known she wanted to talk to him and had deliberately ignored her request, something that made her more determined than ever to confront him over the state of their marriage. If Derek thought he could continue to bully her into doing things his way, he was in for a shock.
Pushing the dough into a baking tin before leaving it to rise, Karen wondered what exactly had prompted this latest move from Derek. He’d always been jealous of her owning The Captain’s House. Was that it? Or was there something else? Financial trouble?
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