The Couple Next Door: The unputdownable

Chapter One

ANNE CAN FEEL the acid churning in her stomach creeping up her throat; her head is swimming. She's had too much to drink. Cynthia has been topping her up all night. Anne had meant to keep herself  to a limit, but she'd let things slide - she didn't know how else she was supposed to get through the evening. Now she has no idea how much wine she's drunk over the course of this interminable dinner party. She'll have to pump and dump her breast milk in the morning.

Anne wilts in the heat of the summer night and watches her hostess with narrowed eyes. Cynthia is flirting openly with Anne's husband, Marco. Why does Anne put up with it? Why does Cynthia's husband, Graham, allow it? Anne is angry but powerless; she doesn't know how to put a stop to it without looking pathetic and ridiculous. They are all a little tanked. So she ignores it, quietly seething, and sips and chilled wine. Anne wasn't brought up to create a scene, isn't one to draw attention to herself. 

Cynthia, on the other hand.....                                                             All three of them- Anne, Marco, and Cynthia's mild-mannered husband, Graham - are watching her, as if fascinated.

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