Chapter 77

He reached down, catching her hand and pulling it against him, knowing her silence did not mean she was not reacting inside.

“I told her that wasn’t going to happen. Not to call you a whore. I didn’t realise how little patience I had left for her. How much I’ve changed towards her? I said things I would never have said three months ago. I just lost it with her.”

His heartbeat had accelerated slightly, clearly remembering the event, part regret, part anger and getting worked up.

“What did she say?” Rose almost held her breath.

“She cried a lot. Typical Morag fashion! Sobbing and howling and trying to throw anything she could reach. Everything I said just worsened it, and they asked me to leave!… I left the hospital in such a rage Rose. With her. At myself! I couldn’t come back here and have you upset by how I was being. I needed to clear my head, so I went for a drive to calm down. I ended up driving to the coast and just taking it out on flooring it across th