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Benjamin Newell fumbled with his mobile phone to try and silence the alarm. He should’ve turned it off earlier: he’d been awake for the past three hours anyway.
He’d had a lot to think about. Today was to be a huge turning point in his life. The day he would finally put his past behind him and be able to focus on his new future as a married man.
Lisa had changed him — there was no doubt about that. She’d been good to him. She’d known about his past and had been forgiving enough to stick with him, to give him the chance to prove that he’d changed. She certainly wasn’t the sort of woman who’d put up with having a husband embroiled in a life of crime. She couldn’t risk that.
As a school teacher, she’d already been required to respond to a government questionnaire on whether she or anyon
