Chapter 41

Rose went home later that afternoon, feigning a headache and apologising to Abby for ruining their plans, but she just needed to be alone to think. Everything she had learned about Morag was swirling in her head, and her heart was breaking into a thousand pieces with all of it.

It tainted everything she did for the next few hours. Took all enjoyment from her life. Her mind, a swirling mass of conflicting thoughts and emotions, robbing her of her sanity, and as much as she tried to put on a brave face, even Muffin was sensing something was wrong. Following her around needily and whining up at her every time she sat still.

She pushed her phone into her bag on silent and ignored his texts, ignored when he called her later that night, unable to bear the sound of his voice. Unable to look at his name on the screen. Her heart was prickling and heavy with the realisation that it would never work that seeing Morag that way, the extent of what he was dealing with, just put an end