Friendship's Bond by Meg Hutchinson

Author:Meg Hutchinson [Hutchinson, Meg]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Sagas
ISBN: 9781444713855
Google: BfCbbwAACAAJ
Publisher: Hodder General Publishing Division
Published: 2010-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

‘The wounds of sorrow cut deep, they lay their scar across the heart . . . shadows lie along the path, sadness and fear wait in their depths.’

Words murmured by an old woman then interpreted by a priest crept silently back from the past into Ann’s mind as she looked at the still figure lying beneath the smooth unruffled counterpane, the grey head barely denting the brilliant white pillow.

‘. . . sadness and fear . . .’

How right those words had proved. The heartbreak of her mother’s death, the misery of rejection by her father, the devastation on learning of her grandmother’s death, the utter desolation which had come with being totally without family: all had laid their scars and now a new one cut its jagged path.

Ann dropped to her knees beside the bed. ‘I wanted only to find him,’ she murmured, ‘but I didn’t, I searched but there was no sign and now he is . . .’ A sob caught in her throat as she covered her face with her hands, an almost silent whisper squeezing between her fingers. ‘So many failures . . . Father, Alec, and now you; each put trust in me but I couldn’t live up to it, I let everyone down and especially you, Leah; no wonder Edward is so angry with me. He is right to be but he is wrong in saying I care only for myself.’

Ann knelt a moment longer then pushed to her feet. She looked at the woman she had come to care deeply for, at the face time and unhappiness had painted with lines.

‘The wounds of sorrow cut deep, they lay their scars across the heart.’

Ann listened to the echo in her mind. Leah Marshall’s heart bore many scars; would Ann Spencer inflict one more?

‘No . . . please, not that! I love you Leah, I never wanted to hurt you.’

The door opening on to the stairs was flung wide and Edward Langley heard in the stillness of the tiny living room Ann’s heartfelt ‘I love you Leah’, words immediately followed by others which cut to the soul of him: ‘You will never be the recipient of Ann Spencer’s love.’

At the sound of footsteps on the stairs he turned again to the fireplace, his own words silent in his heart. You will never know you have Edward Langley’s love.

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