they said we could have it all… they just didn't tell us how.
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,…
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‘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…
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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…
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‘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…
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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…
Read More2am and Caroline is not only awake, but in the kitchen; in the throws of baking 100 cupcakes for the class field trip. And it’s all thanks to Kelly’s now silly sounding advise about the rules of the field trip. ‘You mean a field trip for children has rules too?’ She blurted out when she…
Read MoreCaroline saw the cars as she pulled up at Bridgeport Academy, the private school where literally all the children in the Colony attend before heading off to boarding school or in some cases, Switzerland. The school gate is the ultimate battlefield, where the wars between the working mothers and the stay-at-home moms are fought. And…
Read More‘What did she say when you told her?’ Caroline is standing by the door to his closet, watching Xavier do up his shirt. She knows he would rather she let it go, but she’ll be damned if her crazy mother-in-law will get away with this stunt. Not a chance. ‘She said she didn’t mean it…
Read More‘Have fun.’ Xavier says to Caroline as he pulls up outside of Harvey Nichols. ‘I’ll try.’ Caroline rolls her eyes playfully before giving him a kiss on the lips. Just before she walks through the doors, held open by the uniformed doorman who tips his hat in greeting, she looks back at the car to…
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