Francesca read through the note for the fifth time as if the words might magically have rearranged themselves on the page since she last read it.
Every time she read it she felt something new. The first time it was anger, the second time had been hurt… after that betrayal, and the last time she had only felt disappointment.
This time she was numb.
She didn’t feel anything.
He said that he loved her, and that he was sad that he had to leave her. She had expected that.
After that he went on about how leaving her was the right thing to do and that everybody would be safer this way.
In the end he told her that he hoped she could forgive him and that she would be happy in her new home.
She folded it up neatly and slipped it back into the envelope.
She was still wrapped in the fluffy w
