To their credit, neither Maggie or Terry ever contemplated the thought you might have expected them to at that precise moment. A thought that some of a more unscrupulous nature would say was kind of obvious in their unusual situation. Namely, wouldn't Elliott's absence be sort of good news for the pair of them? It would certainly resolve some long-term problems. If you are a married woman and you are having an affair, the sudden and complete departure of your husband from the scene, would make that affair a little less complicated. That was doubly true when you remembered that the married woman in question was having an affair with her own biological son.
But neither of them even considered the possibility, as they clambered into Maggie's car and set off to pick up Katy, before heading to
