Caroline woke up early this morning, earlier than normal for a Saturday. A day when she likes to sleep in. But that was when her husband was still living at home. Xavier will be over later this morning to pick up the kids for swimming and drop off Amelia. That’s the hard part for Caroline,…

‘Mommy are you and daddy getting a divorce?’ Caroline almost ran the red light when Olive asked that question. ‘Where on earth did you hear that?’ ‘Lily was talking about her parents getting one and she said she heard that you and daddy could be getting one.’ ‘What’s a divorce?’ Xander asks ‘Nothing you have…

Caroline woke up with a splitting headache. She’d had a terrible nights’ sleep of course, after everything went down between herself and Xavier. ‘Oh God.’ She moaned, remembering the details of the previous evening. It wasn’t pretty… ‘Caroline, wait.’ Xavier was quick on the heels of his wife as she hurried up the steps to…

‘How are things between you two?’ ‘Home is hell.’ Caroline answers Kelly’s question with words she never thought she would use to describe her marital home. The home where she created a family with her husband. But they are the most apt words. ‘We walk around on egg shells, put up a front with the…

It was a long night and Caroline spent most of it lying awake and waiting by the phone, hoping to hear from Xavier or the police about Amelia. Thrice when she called him it went to voicemail. His phone must be dead and the in-car charger for the SUV has not been fixed. They’d been…