One Moment in Time by Shari Low

Author:Shari Low [Low, Shari]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-05-01T16:00:00+00:00

18

BRENDA

17 May – Two Days Until The Anniversary

‘Room service!’

The voice at the door woke Brenda up and it took her a minute to make the fog clear and remember where she was. Vegas. That’s right. Yesterday, she’d woken up in her semi-detached bungalow in Glasgow and today she was waking up on the other side of the world. This was the most unexpected thing that had happened to her in her life. Or at least, since the last time she was here.

Her subconscious obviously thought so too, because she’d tossed and turned all night, slipping in and out of a dream that was so vivid that at one point she woke and could actually feel her heart racing. It was thirty years ago. She was here in this city. Excited. Happy. Colin was here too. And Gary and Eileen. They were in a nightclub just off the Strip. They got separated and Brenda was searching everywhere for her friend. Couldn’t find her. Panic. She wondered if maybe Eileen wasn’t feeling well, had left, gone back to their hotel. Brenda raced back to check and… That was when she’d woken up, heart thudding, and had to put the air con on because she was sweating.

Colin had, of course, then awakened to object to the cold air. Said it always made him congested the next day. The snoring coming from the other side of the bed proved that he had a point. She wanted to nudge him, to roll him over on to his side, but she was afraid it would wake him up and then she’d be faced with the possibility of having to talk to him and that wasn’t a risk she wanted to take. Not yet. Not when he seemed incapable of hearing what she was saying.

A loud knock on the door and a second call of ‘Room Service’ reminded her of what had woken her.

Stumbling out of bed, Brenda made her way to the door, trying not to yelp when she stubbed her toe on the end of the bed. Lights would probably have been a good idea before moving. The blackout curtains had the whole place in darkness. It didn’t even cross her mind to wonder who’d ordered the room service. Colin had still been awake when she’d fallen asleep last night, so she just assumed it must have been him.

She barely had the door open when Zara and Millie breezed right in past her. Millie flicked the light on, and Brenda saw that Zara was carrying a tray loaded with coffees and pastries.

‘Morning, Mum,’ Zara chirped, managing to kiss her on the cheek on the way past. ‘Time to get up and get going. We have plans. Lots of them.’

Despite wanting to crawl right back into bed and pull the duvet over her head – preferably without the snoring husband by her side – Brenda chuckled. She adored these two beyond words and their enthusiasm was contagious.

Plans. She liked the sound of that. The busier they

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