“It’s perfectly normal that you feel responsible for her,” Alex whispered. “You have made a promise.”
“She’s ill. And now she’s more vulnerable than ever before.”
“Your place is beside her,” she affirmed gloomily.
“We’ve… we haven’t lived like a husband and wife for a long time,” he added, glancing at Alex, who shook her head painfully, choosing to respond with her eyes closed.
“This means nothing at all right now, Nathaniel.”
“I can’t abandon a woman who’s in a coma. I’d despise myself for it, Alex,” he said, struggling.
Alexis didn’t speak, only nodded. Deep inside, she was torn between two things. She adored him for his integrity, but since she was also desperately in love with him, she felt ruined at the realisation of what a fiendish trap they had fallen into. They would have to
