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I couldn’t endure another weekend without Tor I didn’t know if I could endure another second without him much less another whole week

“She has that other Cora’s money, Phoebe,” Dad went on “But Dara and I saved twenty-five grand for Cora’s wedding You, Harold and Marlene find so, who can help and they won’t do it without getting paid, you need it, you add that, you hear?”

I opened uy

And twenty-five grand for iven , what he knew I alanted

Yeah, uy

“Yeah, Forrest,” Phoebe whispered

There was silence then froh this, what’s Tor going through?”

I twisted ht of that hurt too because I kneas experiencing the sahty warrior prince, struck loith this hideous pain No one could endure this, no one, not even him

And certainly notthe same as she is,” Phoebe answered ine –” Moine a solution to this proble never helped anything”

“You’re right, my love,” Mom whispered

“I know, my love,” Dad whispered back

My love

I could take no more

I forcedthree pairs of startled eyes turn to ard, worried faces

“You should be lying down,” Mo forward

“I need soo to your roouys to leave,” I announced, her eyes got big and her torso shifted back

“Cora, sweetie, that’s not –”

“I know you’re worried aboutand even if I didn’t, it’s impossible to ive me an hour Just an hour I just need to rest and clearI just need to be alone and quiet for an hour Then you can coive me that?”

“We can be quiet here, sweetheart,” Dad said softly

“It’s not the saan and that hen I lost it

I’d been holding it together, holding it by a thread, holding onto that thread for teeks, living for two, long weeks with the constant feeling that thread was going to slip froers And, just then, I lost hold of that thread It wasn’t nice, it wasn’t good but that hen I lost it

“I knohat I aainst the worry on their faces and nodded my head sharply once I openedand I’m sorry and none of this is in anyone’s control and you’re all dragged into it and you’re worried aboutelse and I just need to be free of that Just for an hour”