BrokenTune

I just caught myself shouting at the book.

That doesn't happen often...unless it is a really stupid and bad book, which this one isn't. It's really good and gripping but the main characters are so horrible to each other and Vic is just plain evil. I really wished they'd just get divorced ... or kill each other. 

Thankfully, there was a development.

 

‘There’s more to life than getting along,’ Vic said quickly.

‘It helps!’

They stared at each other.

‘You believe me, don’t you?’ Melinda said. ‘All right, Vic, I want the divorce. You asked me if I wanted it a couple of months ago. Remember?’

‘I remember.’

‘Well, does the offer still hold?’

‘I never go back on my word.’

‘Shall I start the proceedings?’

‘That’s customary. You can accuse me of adultery.’

She took a cigarette from the cocktail table and lighted it with an air of nonchalance. Then she turned and walked into her own room. A moment later she was back again. ‘How much alimony?’

‘I said a generous allowance. It’ll be generous.’

‘How much?’

He forced himself to think. ‘Fifteen thousand a year? You won’t have to support Trix on it.’   

He could see her calculating. Fifteen thousand a year would mean he couldn’t print so many books a year, that he’d have to let Stephen go, or dock his salary, which Stephen would probably agree to.

For a whim of hers, Stephen and his family would have to go on short rations.

‘That sounds all right,’ she said finally.

(show spoiler)

 

Again, Melinda is not great either but she deserves better than bloody Vic.