Chapter 14

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Present day

Shay carefully scooped Orla up into his arms and stumbled along the beach towards the stairs that would lead to Starlight Cottage. She was icy cold and completely unresponsive. Fear flooded through him. He couldn’t lose her. But what if he was doing more damage than good moving her around?

He lay her down gently on the sand again and looked around. Their Christmas tree twinkled at the back of the beach in the opening to a cave, almost taunting him of happier times and all those years that he’d never told her how he truly felt.

He looked back at her and stroked her face. ‘Come on baby, wake up, please, I love you.’