Page 147 - The Letter By Ann Newhouse
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‘Amber please go home tonight, you need your rest’, Penny told me, concerned as always, as she arrived home, ‘I’ll leave the bar closed for the next few days, we’ll be busy going back and forth to the hospital to see Shalma for a while’.
‘Penny include us in your rota for the next couple of weeks’, I insisted, Rex nodded in agreement.
‘Thank you both, we’ll have to work out a plan for visiting,’ she paused, visibly exhausted, ‘Paul will be exhausted if he has to do it all on his own’.
She started to get a pen and paper to sort out a plan, but we managed to persuade her to go to bed for a rest first promising that we would lock up and be there for breakfast duty.
‘That would be a great help’ she said, a tear in her eye.
As I walked up the stairs with her I gently told her to be positive for Paul sake.
‘Yes! You’re right’ she conceded as she wiped her eyes and hugged me.
Rex has gotten up early and had breakfast ready to serve. Paul was next down and seemed in a slightly better frame of mind. Penny and I met on the stairs, ‘How did you sleep’? I asked her.
‘Better, the pills the doctor gave me are great, within the hour I was out for the count’, she did look more rested.
Paul was going to spend the day at the hospital with Penny joining him later. With the bar closed Rex and I went home to the cottage. Everyone was trying to be outwardly cheerful, but underneath we were devastated and there was no real way to hide it.
Paul felt guilty for giving in to Seki’s family after the way her father had treated her, but he did not want the same life for his daughter, so he agreed to let them have Seki


































































































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