Chapter 9
“Is she gonna to be ok?”
Hana recognised Logan’s scared voice and wanted to call out to him that she was fine. Then she remembered - he didn’t love her anymore and her head silenced her seeking, hopeful, foolish heart. Hana lay on the squashy bed in mute silence. She heard Phoenix asking Leslie for a biscuit with an impassioned “Peees Nonie, choc-choc one,” and felt cool hands on her forehead. Thinking it was Logan, she pushed them away.
“Back in the land of the living, Mrs Du Rose?”
The voice belonged to the local doctor. He practised in the Rangiriri township and Hana took Phoenix to see him once with a strange rash that turned out to be an allergy to tinned tuna fish. Hana said nothing, turning her face away from his striking Samoan features and watching dusk settle on the
