The School Run by Sophie King

Author:Sophie King
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi
Tags: Contemporary Fiction, Contemporary Women, Contemporary, Romance, Literature & Fiction, Women's Fiction
Publisher: Corazon Books
Published: 2012-08-19T23:00:00+00:00

37

PIPPA

‘And now it’s request time for the canteen staff of City Hospital. They want us to play “Food Glorious Food” and they want to know what you patients think of the meals you’re getting.’

Funny. She hadn’t remembered putting her headphones on. Had someone done it for her?

‘Pippa, look what someone’s sent you!’

Still sleepy from her nap, she tried to focus on the nurse, who held the most enormous bouquet of stargazers that Pippa had ever seen. Lilies were her favourite. ‘Smelly flowers’, Lucy called them, when Derek occasionally brought them home as a treat. How like him to send them when he could have just brought them in.

‘Has my husband been back?’

Something she couldn’t read crossed the nurse’s face. ‘Not yet. He rang to say he might be a bit delayed.’

‘Why?’

‘He didn’t say.’

Uneasily, Pippa read the card: ‘Pippa dearest. Get well soon. All my love. Gus.’ She ripped the card into tiny pieces. ‘Take them away.’

‘What?’

‘Take the flowers away. I don’t bloody want them.’

The nurse gave her a strange look and picked up the bouquet. ‘Where shall I put them?’

‘I don’t care. The bin. The morgue. Someone’s bed. Just get them out of here.’

Pippa waited until the nurse had gone, then turned towards the wall, tears running down her face. How could Gus be so tactless? If he wasn’t more careful, Derek would find out and her marriage would be over. Providing she hadn’t received her death warrant first.

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