Carys
My heart plummets. Why is she here? I straighten my shoulders and walk to sit on the chair opposite her. Franco comes in right behind me with coffee and muffins on a tray. “Thank you Franco.” I give him a grateful smile and wish I could ask him to stay.
“I thought I would come and visit you now that we are back.” She smiles at me but I feel no warmth in it.
I stare at the coffee cup in front of me. My stomach is still rolling from Renetta’s words at the shop.
“You don’t look very good Carys. Marriage is supposed to make a woman glow. You look more like you are going to vomit.” Gabriella stares at me.
“I am not feeling my best today.”
She scoffs “today….my dear you look like you are going to faint or vomit every day. You have no spine and you have nothing to captivate a man like
