‘Shut up. Not for you, i***t girl. They’ll have their own money. And he’s probably got a shedload of insurance from the accident. Well, you tell them that
you want a budget and then you use that money, and you use the – what was it? – four months you’ve got left. And you change Derek Traynor’s mind.’
‘What?’
‘You change his mind. You said he spends most of his time indoors, right? Well, start with something small, then once you’ve got him out and about again, you think of every fabulous thing you could do for him, everything that might make him want to live – adventures, foreign travel, swimming with dolphins, whatever – and then you do it. I can help you. I’ll look things up on the internet at the library. I bet we could come up with some brilliant things for him to do. Things that wo
