Chapter 29

• The cab ride to Kelvin’s affluent suburb felt like crossing a boundary into a life she no longer had a right to inhabit.
• Every street sign, every nicely trimmed and manicured lawn, was a painful reminder of the future she had lost—a future bought at the price of her mother’s security, now stolen by a cruel accident, and in all of this madness, she couldn’t bring her self to burden her mum with the truth of what was going on.
• Her heart was beating so heavily beneath her coat that she felt dizzy, the fear of seeing Kelvin again almost immobilising her.