Chapter 33
Just a person. Lying on a bed. In a hospital room. Breathing.
There was no time to say goodbye. No time for regrets or recriminations. No time to wait until the loved ones had gathered by the bed to bid them farewell.
They didn’t know that somewhere out there a heart had just been crushed by the weight of broken promises.
Or that someone else sighed with relief as they walked away from the past. Or that someone’s plans for a new life had turned to dust. Or that a very unexpected love was pulling two hearts together.
They didn’t know that the person they loved most in the world wouldn’t make it in time. Maybe wouldn’t make it at all.
They didn’t know that a love had died, that when it came right down to it, the only love that mattered was the one that endured, that stuck, that was meant to be.
Just a person. Lying on a bed. In a hospital room. Breathing.
Just a heart beating.
And then it stopped.
Yvonne Anderson, Caro’s mum, was gone with the words of her daughter echoing across the void…
Know I love you.