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“Bree’s letter?”

“To tell nancy”

Should she tell hied her to watch out for her husband and her, at that time, as yet unborn child? That she’d somehon that the aortic aneurysm she’d kept secret from her family would take her life in childbirth? One look at his face confirmed he hadn’t known of his wife’s correspondence to her

“So, you’re back”

Finally The unspoken word hung on the air between thement at the same time

“My mother was ill I made it back a feeeks before she died at Christmas”

“I’m sorry”

The platitude fell autoo up even stronger He didn’t want to know, not really Not when he was still locked tight in his own sorrow, his own grief

“I only got Bree’s letter last week and rang her htaway I’m here to help with Ruby”

“The child already has a carer, her grandmother”

“Yes, but Catherine needs surgery, Raoul She can’t keep putting her knee replace more active”

“I told her to find a nanny if she needed to”