The Perfect Match by Unknown Page A

David's child. He had been living with Jon and Jenny since the breakup of his own parents' marriage.
    Jack's married sister, Olivia, and her husband, Caspar, and their two young children lived close by and it had been Jack's own wish that he live with his aunt and uncle.

    'Whom are you watching with such interest?' Jenny asked, walking over to the window to look through it.
    'Ah...Guy's lady love. I'd forgotten she was coming to see you.'
    'Mmm...she's nice. I liked her, and from what she's been telling me, her mother is nothing like her late brother. It seems that her mother and her uncle never really got on, but despite that, her parents apparently want to have a list of Charlie's main creditors so that they can pay off his debts.'
    'That's very generous of them.'
    'Very,' Jon agreed.
    'But why has she come to Haslewich to deal with things and not her mother?'
    'I rather suspect from what she didn't say that her mother, obviously knowing her late brother, feels that the residents of Haslewich might not make her very welcome, but as I pointed out to Chrissie, every family has its black sheep, and sometimes more than one of them, as we know all too well.'
    Jenny looked up at him. 'I do wish David would get in touch with your father. It would mean so much to him, and apart from that card he sent at Christmas, he hasn't contacted Ben at all.'
    'I know,' Jon agreed, placing his hand on his wife's shoulder and drawing her in against his body. 'Dad's Christmas card had a Spanish postmark, but David seems determined to keep his actual whereabouts a secret.'
    'Perhaps it's for the best,' Jenny suggested, looking up at her husband. 'After all, if he did come back, what could he do? He couldn't come back to work here...not after...'

    'No, he certainly couldn't do that,' Jon concurred sombrely.
    'Do you still miss him?' Jenny asked gently. The brothers were twins, even if...
    Jon shook his head. 'No, not really, not in a personal sense. But I do wish for Dad's sake that things could be different. He's been a changed man since David left.'
    'He's getting old, Jon,' Jenny commiserated.
    'Aren't we all?' Jon grimaced, thinking of the changes that the past few years had brought. Since that fateful night of the brothers' shared fiftieth birthday party and David's near fatal heart attack, both of them had become grandfathers, he through his son, Max, who was now married with two children and David through his daughter, Olivia, but whilst he saw his grandchildren regularly and enjoyed their company, he doubted that David even knew of his grandchildren's existence.
    'Olivia was telling me the other day that Tiggy has decided that she wants to divorce David,' Jenny commented.
    'Yes, I know,' Jon agreed. 'In fact, Olivia and I were discussing it only the other day. Tiggy's new man wants to marry her and he's pressing her to do something about ending her marriage to David.'
    Jenny looked at her husband, unable to stop herself from asking, 'Do you...?' She bit her lip, wondering if it was wise to remind Jon that there had been a time when, if only fleetingly, he had been tempted to break his own marriage vows over his twin brother's wife, just as she had, oh so briefly, been tempted to respond to Guy's need for her.

    But Jon, it seemed, had read her mind because he immediately shook his head and took hold of both her hands as he told her quietly, 'The only regret I have is that I was ever foolish enough to risk losing you,'
    he admitted truthfully.
    'Oh, Jon,' Jenny whispered as she went into his arms and leaned her head against his chest. 'I do hope that everything works out for Guy with Chrissie. He's head over heels in love with her...'
    'And she with him if the way she looked this afternoon when I mentioned his name is anything to go by,' Jon assured her.
    'Well, she certainly looked as though she loved him when I saw them together, but...' Jenny nibbled at her bottom lip.
    'But what?' Jon gave her a rueful look. 'Do I detect just a hint of