Chapter 85

• ‘If you had known me better when Luca was born, then you might have been able to talk to me. You should have been able to talk to me but I failed you. Do you know what it did to me when you said that you had been afraid to talk—afraid of me?’
• There was no need for words to describe what he’d felt. It was there in the sheen on his eyes, the tremor of pain in his voice, the way his hands tightened around hers. She could be in no doubt as to what he’d gone through, hearing those words.
• ‘I felt that I’d lost you—that there was no way back from that. That was when I decided I had to let you go.’