SCOTT

It was winter, and the coldest one I had ever witnessed.

Although Dad had agreed to let me spend the short break in the Thompsons' villa because he had hoped it would strengthen the bond he had assumed was already growing between Maya and I. He was forced to cancel the arrangement went he learned that Mr Thompson's second daughter was already pregnant with me, and was even five months gone already.

I remember how furious Dad was, I remember how we also lost the best of the china wares ...