Finally we get Mac’s story. Beth and Mac met when she briefly visited Bebe. They began exchanging emails for over a year, during that time they became fast confidants and a friendship blossomed.
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Mac and Beth had rushed into their physical relationship, which eventually imploded. The explored their sexual hard limits with ropes, and Mac finds himself falling but in the recesses of his mind, he’s overcome with memories of Corinne and Robbie.
Beth lost her husband, Will, a law enforcement officer senselessly, he’d delved into an investigation involving Gibson and was killed.
Beth and Bebe have known each other since Bebe was seventeen, she feels betrayed when she divulges a confidence she shared about the photographs of his wife and son on his bedside table and his devastation on forgetting his ring at the station; this causes an estrangement between the two friends.
He was moving toward me but stopped when I raised a hand.
“I’m pregnant,” I said.
He pushed out a breath of weak laughter which sounded mostly as if someone had punched him in the belly. I nodded silently.
“But I’m fifty-six,” he said hoarsely.
“I’m forty-eight,” I told him, which he knew.
“We used –”
“You’re pregnant,” he stated.
“We’ll be a hundred years old when she graduates from high school,”
“She?”
“They do loads of tests on older mothers,” I said.
“She?” he repeated.
Annie earlier in the story admits to Callum that she’s pregnant and he asks Paddy permission to marry her.
Trish decides to accept a position with Mac’s old boss on the police force, and to see the promise of her relationship with Andy and where it might lead. Benny, Beth’s son finally grows out of his petulance and accepts his mother’s new life in with Mac. They become parents to daughter, Wilhemina or Minnie.
As with the entire series, characters over fifty with life experiences. We get to revisit previous and new secondary faces.
Each book depicts a story centred around a specific couple and their close-knit group of friends that surround them. The men are typically fifty-five 55 and the women of a similar in age.
This is the end of the series. This was not my favourite, I preferred Gibson and Day’s stories.