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I need to tell you about tonight, something I’ve done,” she said but couldn’t bring herself to look at him.
    “I . . . I don’t know where to start, I have lied to you and I’m sorry,” but before she could say anymore, Gary placed one finger to her lips and lifted her face up with his other hand.
    “Hush, Alex it ’s ok, I know about tonight,” said Gary softly, looking into her eyes.
    “No you don’t understand, how could you? I didn’t tell anyone. The only people who knew were in that room tonight,” said Alex and stopped to look at Gary. She froze for a second. Gary was now the one avoiding the other’s gaze.
    “Gary how could you know ?” Gary looked at her, he began to speak but Alex cut him off.
    “The only way you c ould know was if you were there. You were in the room tonight,” she looked at Gary again, searching his face for a reaction. “You were the man! The man with the full mask on . . . No! Gary, please tell me I’m wrong,” she stood up and backed away from him and bumped into the chest of drawers. She froze
    “Alex, please , I can explain,” Gary said.
    “Explain ! You knew the entire time and never said a word, I did all that tonight worrying about. . .” Alex stopped and turned round and pulled open the top drawer, she was so angry, she grabbed one of Gary’s shirts and turned round and threw it towards him.
    “Get out! Gary get out, I can’t do this now,” she shouted.
    Gary picked up the T-shirt and took a step towards her.
    “Alex, you’re tired and upset, I can understand but I need to explain everything to you,” he tried to hold her and calm her down.
    “No! Leave. I want you out! Out of this room and this house, I can’t do this now,” she said, pushing him away.
    “Alex, ok I will sleep downstairs. We can talk about this when you ’ve had a chance to calm down,” he said.
    “No Gary, I need you to leave, I can’t be in the same house as you right now, why don’t you go to your other house . You seemed to like it there.”
    Gary stopped trying to argue, he knew there was no reasoning with her in this state.
    “Ok, ok” , he said and put on his shirt. “I will go tonight but I will be back in the morning because we need to talk this through.”
    “Please Gary go now.”
    She could feel the tears coming but she was not going to cry in front of him, because then he would come over and hold her and she was frightened she would give in and let him stay. He left the bedroom and she heard him go down the stairs. She waited until she heard him pick up his keys. She went to the bedroom window and watched him go towards the car. Gary stopped and looked up, but Alex stepped back so he couldn’t see her, and then he was gone, the car pulling out of the drive. Alex dropped to the floor and sobbed. She felt angry and betrayed. After a few minutes she stopped crying and the anger began to set back in. She replayed the conversation in her head. “I’ll be back in the morning to talk it through,” Gary’s voice repeated in her mind.
    I can’t face him , she thought to herself, and with that she got up and grabbed a suitcase out of the wardrobe. She dressed herself in tracksuit bottoms and a T-shirt, and started to throw clothes into the bag. She grabbed her phone charger and threw that in, she went to the bedside drawer and got out her passport and packed it too.
    Then she went downstairs and phoned for a taxi, and asked it to take her to a hotel near the airport. She picked up her jacket and handbag from the chair where she’d left them and placed them next to the suitcase.
    She was still shaking when the taxi came; she walked out of the house towards the car and got in. The taxi driver smiled at her, she smiled back but then looked out of the side window, the driver knew she wasn’t in the mood to chat, and pulled away from the house.

Chapter Nine
    She booked into a Travelodge near the airport; she needed to get far away to clear her head. Alex picked up