by Adam Carter
“Just tell me who you are, please,” Liz snapped. She was in no mood for this right now.
“Becky. My name’s Becky, I was on the show once.”
“The girl from the fish-and-chip shop? The girl with the Uzi?”
“Uh, violin actually.”
“What are you even doing with this number?”
“Well, I ... uh ...”
“God, you weren’t having an affair with him too were you?”
“Too?”
Liz took a deep breath and closed her eyes. “The number of girls who’ve called this number today, you’d think it was Dial-a-Casanova or something.”
The tone on the other end became suddenly very cold. “Other girls?”
“Yeah, I mean this hour alone there have been ... hello? Hello?”
Liz turned off the phone and tossed it in the bin. She was angry and knew she had no right to be. So Corsac was cheating on her, just as he had been cheating on his wife. It was mildly more annoying that Jack had been using the present she had bought him to have an affair with another woman, but that was beside the point.
Liz’s anger lasted only a moment, however, for she really did not care. (Yes, she did, but she could easily pretend otherwise.) If Corsac survived, he would spend the rest of his life with his family; he didn’t need Becky from the fish-and-chip shop turning up to spoil everything. In her own way, Liz felt she had even done the man some good. After all the mess she had caused of the man’s life, she had finally done something worthwhile.
She smiled to herself and laid an unconscious hand upon her belly. Yes, there was something else worthwhile she had done with Jack, not that he would ever find out about it. She had told him once and he had not believed her, but to tell him again would destroy his family forever.
Liz would keep it as her little secret. This time, she would do the right thing by everybody.
Also available by the same author in e-book and paperback:
Dinosaur World books:
Excavating a Dinosaur World
Dinosaur Fall-Girl
Dinosaur Plague Doctor
Ike Scarman & the Dinosaur Slavers of Ceres
Dinosaur Prison World
The Dinosaur That Wasn’t
Awfully Wedded Strife
Tales of a Dinosaur Prison World
Deities of a Dinosaur World
Return to the Dinosaur Prison World
Nikolina Finch & the Dinosaur Utopia
Of Stags, Hens & Dinosaurs
Dinosaur World Gladiator
The Wounding Tooth
Dinosaur World Massacre
Dino-Racers
Dinosaur World Unscripted
Christmas on a Dinosaur World
Utara the Savage
Sheriff Grizzly:
Book 1: Sheriff Grizzly
Book 2: The Horse Thief Honey
Book 3: The Coyote Colt Kid
Book 4: Joins the Circus
Book 5: The Haunting of Athelstan Swift
Book 6: The Santa Claws Showdown
Book 7: The Kangaroo Claim Jumpers of Crumbling Gulch
Book 8: Gets a Reality Check
Book 9: Bets Against the Card Shark
Book 10: The Hairy Walrus of Truespire Peak
Book 11: The End
Book 12: In the Afterlife
Knights of Torbalia gamebooks:
The Return of the Stolen Jewel
Into the Massacre
March of the Demon Trees
The Thief of Tarley Manor
The Class War
The Haunting of Past Wraiths
The Hunt for the Adulterous Bard
A Peacock in the Den of Foxes
Attack of the Demon Trees
The Slave Scandal of Torbalia
Miscellaneous gamebooks:
Lost Treasures of a Dinosaur World (300 paragraphs)
The Underworld Horror (300 paragraphs)
Sheriff Grizzly: The Good, the Bad & the Grizzly
Sheriff Grizzly: The Wild West Dungeon Adventure
The Christmas Adventure of Sam and Klutz
Operation WetFish: Vengeful Justice
Operation WetFish: A Wealth of Sin
Jupiter’s Glory: Oppression of the Press
Dinosaur World: The Forest of Fiends
The Temple of Death: The Villain’s Gamebook
Hero Cast trilogy:
Book 1: The Villainous Heroes
Book 2: The Heroic Villains
Book 3: The Forge of Heroes
Jupiter’s Glory:
Book 1: The Dinosaur World
Book 2: The Pirates and the Priests
Book 3: The Obsidian Slavers
Book 4: Just Passing Through
Book 5: The Virus of Gangrene’s Scurvy
Book 6: Stranded on a Storm Moon
Book 7: Eyes on the Prize
Detective books:
Detective’s Ex
One-Way Ticket to Murder
Who Slew Santa?
The Curse of the Genie’s Detective
The Woman Who Cried Diamonds
The Murder of Snowman Joe
The Murder of Loyalty
The Prostitute Butcher
The Santa Worshippers
Betty Stalks a Biker Cop
Dinosaur Frontier:
Book 1: The Lightning Angel
Book 2: Lightning Strikes Twice
Book 3: The Law of Ceres
Book 4: The Silk Caves of Ceres
Operation WetFish, Vampire Detective:
Book 1: The Power of Life and Death
Book 2: Chasing Innocence
Book 3: The Hunt for Charles Baronaire
Book 4: Christmas on the Kerb
Book 5: A Necessary Evil
Book 6: No Comment
Book 7: Fear and Ecstasy
Book 8: Call of the Siren
Book 9: Happy Families
Book 10: A Step in the Right Direction
Book 11: What Money Can’t Buy
Book 12: ‘Tis the Season
Book 13: The Power Trip
Book 14: Trust and Betrayal
Book 15: A Gathering of Minds
Book 16: The Pain of Life
Book 17: The Happy Place
Book 18: The Terrible Truth of Barry Stockwell
Book 19: The Apex Predator
Book 20: End of an Era
Book 21: He Who Kills the Killers’ Killers
Book 22: Bad Day at the Office
Book 23: Death of the Dream
Book 24: Out for Blood
Book 25: Reckoning
Book 26: Pillow Talk
Book 27: For the Greater Good
Book 28: The Plot to Kill the King
Book 29: The Origin of WetFish
Book 30: New Blood
Miscellaneous:
Holding the Nuts
One Week to Love: Speed Dating of the Gods
The Trojan Ant
Gauntlet of Daedalus
The Faerie Contract
Token Love
Sleigh Ride Slaughter to Saturn
Have Imagination, Will Travel
A Mermaid’s Odyssey
The Captain’s Bombshell
The Cestus Sisters
The Elves Told Me to Do it
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