Chapter 245: Seventy-Six Kilometres, Forty-Seven Miles

VOLUME THREE: Intimacy

Prologue:

Tallulah's POV:

Seventy-six kilometres, forty-seven miles, as the crow flies. One hour and forty-six minutes, sixty-seven point one miles if I take the A23, according to my satnav. If I take the M25, I'll add a minute and over ten miles onto my journey.

I've not even started driving yet.

I'm sitting in my car, the key in my hand, trying to calm myself. I need to steady my heartbeat and stop shaking before I can drive away.

My brother is going to be so disappointed with me. That might be the worst bit of all this. Not that my entire life has been turned upside down in an hour and a half. Not that I'm hurt or that I'm close to breaking. No. The worst of it is that I've wasted everything my big brother has offered me. Squandered it and he's going to think I'm ungrateful.

Unless I tell him.

But I can't tell him.

I won't tell him.