Sean had returned to his room, but Marcus and Jo had lingered at the kitchen table, finishing off a bottle of wine. She had spoken tentatively, her eyes cast down on the place where her dinner plate had recently been, but now that she looked up to see how Marcus would react, she suddenly noticed how tired he seemed.‘This was our fresh start. A new place, a new enterprise. This is it, Jo. You can’t just run away and start again every few years.’‘I just think that maybe we’d all be happier somewhere else.’‘Moving is a huge expense. We can’t afford to extend our mortgage, then there’s the business and Sean’s school.’‘It would be better for Sean if we didn’t live right out in the country like this. If he was nearer his school, living in a bigger community, where there were more young people … He’s had Harry this week, but Harry’s family went home yesterday and there isn’t anyone else of his own age for miles.’‘But he’s just got started at his new school, and anyway, he always knows he can ask us for a lift to anywhere he wants to go.
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