Patrick had traveled all night from Swallowston to Northrive but had yet to calm down.

He stormed into the living room in a rage.

“You’re home, Father.” Jimmy hastily walked over to welcome his father’s arrival.

Jimmy’s mother, Rosie, quickly came out of the room too.

Rosie Wade was forty years old this year and was ten years younger than Patrick. She had become his mistress when she was eighteen and became pregnant with Jimmy. She only married Patrick legally after Joanna’s mother passed aw