Chapter Thirty One
Caroline woke late. A watery sun was pushing its fingertips around the edges of the curtains. She stretched and smiled, realising that for the first time in ages, she and Joe were properly alone.
Lizzy and Harry had moved out.
Other than the gentle snuffle of Joe’s breathing, muffled by the pillow he had wedged over his head, the house was silent. Caroline rolled slowly out of bed, doing her best not to wake him. She stood at the door watching the rise and fall of the bed clothes around Joe’s sleeping form. Her heart swelled with love, and relief that it was just the two of them again.
While she had been happy to take her brother and his wife in during their time of need, and she would do so again in a heartbeat, it was good to know she and Joe would be able to retur
