13 4th September
Culverhouse had been thinking about calling Helen for a number of days. Ever since she’d left his house a few nights back, in fact. It seemed incongruous to him that her having disappeared from his life for so long should just be explained away with a couple of hours of vague excuses and bickering. He was used to getting explanations out of people and gaining a full oversight of situations, and his marriage was going to be no different.
He didn’t want to be the one to go running to her — that would look too desperate — but at the same time he was well aware that if he didn’t call her then she wouldn’t be in any great rush to be the one to initiate contact. Her actions over the past few years had proved that.
Cautiously, he pulled his mobile phone out of his pocket, unlo
