Review: Marriage Meltdown

Marriage Meltdown by Emma Darcy
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

3 ⭐⭐⭐ - OK decent reads
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'Familiarity has advantages. It can also become boring. I felt like a change.'

'Do you realise we don't talk about anything except what's happened with the children?'

'There's no point in having two suites.'

'You can relax, Gina,' he assured her with a mocking little smile. 'Our marriage is not under threat. Just as you need me to support the children, I need you to keep my family with me. So you don't have to do anything. Your position as my wife is unassailable.'

'I'm sure you won't mind excusing me from this increasingly distasteful scene. I need a hot shower.'

'That kiss is about as exciting as a wet rag,' Reid hissed.

'Oh, I think some riding lessons could top it off. Not to mention other little services you might do if so inclined. But I don't want to push you too far on your wifely mission to give satisfaction. By all means call a halt now, and I'll quite understand.'

'Sick and sore and sorry for herself, most likely. But not to worry, Patrick. Your mother will be back to her normal self in no time flat.'

Reid had to acknowledge Paige probably felt she had reason to consider herself the front-running candidate for a new experience with him, and the roses would seem to make a hash of that expectation.

'You've- got nothing to worry about. It won't affect your life.'

I'm taking Paige out to lunch, Gina.' It skewered her heart. 'It's her birthday today.' 'Her birthday,' she repeated numbly.

'I would have preferred to be busy with you,' she said, then dropped her tone low enough to keep the words private. 'But that plan fell through since you chose to spend your personal time with your personal assistant.'

'Come on, Gina.' He applied a silky whip with a sting that burned. 'Don't you want to check if Paige Calder left her smell on me?'

Even when he'd been dallying with the idea of making a sexual arrangement with Paige, he would never have given the excuse, 'My wife doesn't understand me.' Nor would he have allowed such an arrangement to impinge on his marriage.

Paige Calder, however, was doing more than that. She was throwing it into the ring. And Reid had stepped into the ring with her by agreeing to this apartment.

For how long had this sort of thing been going on?

What kind of man housed a wife and a mistress—or would-be mistress—under the same roof?

It showed such a lack of respect for her intelligence. A lack of respect for many things Gina held dear. She wasn't sure she could go on with this attempt at a second honeymoon, wasn't sure she wanted to.

Reid was the blind one now if he thought moving Paige Calder to another apartment would gloss over the situation.

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