ears p

hornton estate, a place t

he-clock care, a routine o

ived through medical intervention Eleanor had insisted upon

the only warmth in t

manager, mother of two beautiful children. They saw a

arah, waiting. For w

had prayed for, and I had

n wo

used. First on his mother,

ecstatic. Elean

a ghost at t

to me were not of grati

e rasped, his voic

is Sarah, Ethan. Your wife. She'

gant blue I remembered from

d down, a sneer forming. "S

didn' t flinch. I had

arrangement for everyone but me." He coughed, then his eyes

paraded in magazines, the one whose picture was

ed. "Ethan, dear, that

his gaze flicking back to me with co

the doctors had left and Eleano

stand this is a shock. If you want me to le

a harsh, b

ve years? I don' t think so. You married me for t

leave was some kind of

how much I long