Chapter 192: I Want to Be There for Him

Clara's POV:

I want to be there for him. I have no idea what I could possibly do to help, but I desperately want to feel helpful. All of our own issues have vanished into irrelevance beside this new concern for Andrew and his family.

How can I focus on anything else?

Not having grown up with a mother, I have no idea what it feels like to think you might lose her but from what Andrew has shared with me I've come to realise that he's been carrying that fear almost his whole life, ever since his father died when he was a teenage boy.

If I know Andrew as well as I think I do, he's doing everything he can to look after his siblings. I am sat in my office pressing on with all the work that has built up while I've been out of the office, but all I can think about is what Andrew must be feeling. Landon pops his head through my office door after a startlingly quick rap at the door shortly before lunch time.

"Got a moment?" he asks with a genuine smile.