Chapter Ten“Sorry Love, but this parcel won’t go through the letterbox next door. It’s too wide, and it says, ‘Please don’t bend.’ It’s made it this far, so it seems a shame to just shove it through the gap. Looks like the poor thing’s been halfway round the world.”
Lara looked at the wide, brown envelope in the postman’s hands as though it had the power to destroy her world.
Because it did.
It already had.
She reached out to take it from him and then dropped her hands. “Why is it here?” she demanded. “This isn’t where it should have gone.”
“Dunno love.” The postman shrugged. An Artic blast created a growing drip on the end of his frozen nose. “Can you take it?” he asked, c*****g his head.
Lara stared at the brown envelope. Her heart hammered the blood through her eardrums like a jaz
