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Touessed that a e of a nervous breakdown

‘I’ised to Hailey ‘He’s very attached to it’

Hailey rubbed absently at the spot just below her shoulder where the i itself felt ‘Like a security blanket?’ she murmured

Callu the curious looks over Tolanced over at his son again to check that he was too absorbed in the show to be listening

‘Too He had a lot of coht, on the ward, it was dark and he’d wake up really frightened One of the nurses suggested I buy hiive him back some control I’m afraid they still can’t be parted’

Hailey felt as if the walls were closing in Acute lyasps and the sympathetic murmurs from her sisters but was too frozen to respond Tom was sick?

‘Is his treatment complete?’ Rilla asked

‘Six months now,’ Callum confirmed He didn’t say what the three nurses would have already known Toiven the all-clear He could relapse at any moment

Hailey stared at hily Tom was sick? It felt like déjà vu She reitis had developed out of the blue and he’d been dead within two days How the love she’d once felt for Paul, Eric’s father, had been uilt and blame

Hailey vaguely heard Callu his wife’s battle with cancer but was still too stunned over the information on Tom to really coh a harrowing six years If it had been anything like this last year for her, she was a

Oh, dear God She was doing it again Beco attracted to a ? Who was she kidding? There was no beco about it She was She’d arrived She was attracted to him But this orse than with Paul Much worse She’d known Callu else

For heaven’s sake, he’d sat beside her all evening and she couldn’t recall a thing anyone had said This was no friendship evolving into so else, no slow burn, as it had been with Paul This was a raging bush fire set to explode out of control Last time had crushed her and already she knew this wasn’t in the saue She couldn’t survive another doomed attraction

‘Isn’t that right, Hailey?’

‘Wh-what?’ Hailey spun around, Beth’s voice intruding into her seething thoughts