I’m so sorry,” he muttered.She’d been so deeply stupid. She felt sick. “Are you telling me you’re having an affair?”“No. I mean nothing’s happened.” Jez spoke through his fingers.Oh. Stevie felt a strange mix of relief and disappointment. What was he talking about?“I . . . I . . . I don’t even know how she feels. But I can’t pretend.I can’t do this.”This. The marriage. The sham. “Oh, my God, you’re serious.” Jez was leaving her? The irony broke over her head like an icy wave. She clamped her hand over her mouth, pinching her lips white and rolling them with her fingers.“I don’t expect you to forgive me,” he said quietly.An image of Katy, nude, standing at the side of the pool, arms arrowed above her wet head. It all came into horrible focus. A hurt, rejected feeling hollowed out her chest. She had to pant to breathe. She was being dumped. For Katy Norris. It was like leaving that party on her own all over again. Except this time it was her mar- riage.“Please say something,”
