As the ambulance drove away, I had a sudden, sick feeling of dread.
“Charlotte…” I asked softly. “Is he going to make it?”
Charlotte held me close. “I don’t know, Sherlock. But thanks to you he has a fighting chance. You were very brave.”
That was the last time that I ever hugged my sister. Even now I have her heartbeat at the back of my mind.
When Mick and Nando had gone, Bill and Charlotte hugged warmly and kissed. I would have been disgusted, but there is something about mutual, true love that pardons impropriety.
“I could stay like this with you all day, darlin’.” Bill blushed with pleasure. “But we have a few loose ends to tie up. You’ll never guess what we have waitin’ for us back at the station.”
Charlotte’s eyes widened with the thrill of the hunt, and her enthusiasm echoed m
