Today I am pleased to welcome Amanda Robson to my blog as part of The Obsession blog tour where I can share an extract from the book with my readers:
I’m FaceTiming you, Craig, because I’m missing you. I’m
missing your comfortable arms around me. Missing the feel of you. The heat of
you. I am not FaceTiming Luke and Mark because seeing me may unsettle them when
they seem to be doing so well with you.
Your smiling face appears in front of me – a ‘beam me up,
Scotty’ moment – a miracle too futuristic to be real. But it is real. You are
smiling up at me from my iPad as if you were in the room. For a second I think
I can smell the hard-edged scent of your favourite aftershave. It’s there for a
second and then gone.
‘How’s it going?’ you ask, your face crumpling in concern.
‘She had a good day today,’ I say, trying to sound bright,
trying to smile, wanting to let you know I’m not going to drag you down. That I
can cope.
What I’ve told you is true; she has had a better day. But
better is a comparative term. Still she has slept almost incessantly, like a
small baby bird, bony and vulnerable, her Egyptian cotton bed sheets her nest.
Still she hasn’t eaten, even though I tried to force a gel pack of sugary nutrients
between her teeth. Still her chest wheezes like wind in the trees. But today,
at least, morphine has contained her pain.
‘How are the boys?’ I ask.
‘Fine.’ You pause, watching me watching you. ‘Honestly,’ you
add as if I might think you were lying.
Thank you to Amanda and the publishers, Avon, for inviting me to take part in the tour.
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