Chapter 41

• Her son was no more than a few meters away from her.
• And never before had the phrase "so near and yet so far" meant so much to her. Never before had it slashed at her with the cruel truth that she was so near to Luca that all she had to do was to take a couple of steps forward and she could be close to him. She could look down at him and see how much he had grown, how he had changed—because he had to have changed, surely, in the time she had been away.
• Perhaps she could even reach out and take him in her own arms...