Chapter 55

Jasmine moistened her dry lips, aware that this conversation wasn't at all as she had envisaged it. It sounded as if Collins was leaving her!

‘When I decided to go on this trip, I felt we needed to be away from each other for a while.'

'This last year--'

'We've continued to live together,' he continued grimly. 'And it's been a disaster.' He sighed deeply. 'You can't be separated and still live in the same house, it just doesn't work.'

'No,' she agreed huskily. 'So that's what we're doing, separating?'

Collins looked down at her with narrowed eyes. 'It's what you want, isn't it?' he rasped.

'Yes.'

He nodded abruptly. 'It's what I feel we should do too…,’

It had all been so much easier than she had thought. For all that they had drifted apart this past year she hadn't expected Collins to be quite so amenable about their divorce. It left her with a feeling of anti-climax.

'--and see how we both feel then,' Collins concluded. <