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Caroline had been keen to make amends. She knew it wasn’t Mark’s fault. He was trying to do his best in difficult circumstances, but it wasn’t as if things were much easier for her.
At times she felt smothered, as if she didn’t have the mental space to recover because he was always there. But there was no denying that in other senses they’d drifted. They hadn’t had s*x for weeks. Months, perhaps. Immediately after the hysterectomy, it had been impossible. But she felt as if Mark now looked at her in a different way when it came to s*x.
It had played into all her biggest fears: that she’d feel less of a woman, that he’d resent her for not being able to bear more children. She knew that chemotherapy and major surgery hadn’t done wonders for her appearance, but she hadn’t expected the t
