Marriage In Peril. Miranda Lee

anything. If you’re still asleep when Leo comes home, I’ll tell him not to disturb you.’

      Now the tears came, and Sophia looked alarmed. ‘Are you sure it’s just a headache, Brooke? There’s nothing else wrong, is there?’

      Brooke refused to add to the woman’s worry. She’d had enough on her plate lately. This was her problem and she would deal with it.

      ‘I think I’m a bit homesick,’ she said, not untruthfully.

      Sophia nodded. ‘It’s time Leo took you home.’

      Brooke just smiled sadly and turned to go upstairs. Her legs felt like lead, each step a mammoth effort. By the time she came out of the shower, two rather big white pills were sitting on the near bedside table, along with a glass of water. A small and very elegantly set out tray rested on the other table, with two tempting-looking sandwiches and a tall glass of iced milk.

      Her mother-in-law’s sweet thoughtfulness brought another rush of tears. Brooke knew Sophia would be devastated if she and Leo broke up. So would Giuseppe. Brooke could not do it to them, or to her children, or to herself. She loved Leo. She would always love him, no matter what. Life without him was unimaginable!

      Brooke fell asleep with tears still wet on her cheeks. But they had long dried when she woke many hours later to the sounds of someone in the en suite bathroom, in the shower.

      Her errant husband, it seemed, had finally deigned to come home.