Despite everything, despite all the ways in which he had been betrayed, Elliott was surprisingly decent about the divorce. When he left Maggie alone in the house that day, the day she told him she was leaving him for their son, he had gone back to the same hotel where he had been staying for the previous few days. He scoured the internet for local listings, and hired himself an escort. The first time he had ever done such a thing. A young woman called Amanda - working under the name of Angel - arrived at his room an hour or so later. Elliott promptly lost his nerve and ended up paying for the girl to leave. Then he lay on the bed and wept.
No more than twenty miles away, back home, Maggie had phoned Terry and explained what had happened. He insisted on coming back and she spent hours enve
