The riches of JESSIE
Her ‘friends’ were women married to ‘other Barrys’. They met for lunch, but she knew that whenever she was absent they were ripping her to shreds just as they ripped others to shreds when they weren’t there. She could never trust them with anything verging on a secret. She didn’t even like them that much either, if she were honest with herself. She missed having her old friends, but Barry didn’t get on with them and somehow over the years they’d fallen away until their only contact was an annual Christmas card.
Barry said because they weren’t married and Jessie hadn’t paid the mortgage or any of the bills, she didn’t have a
