Two Weddings and a Fugitive (Book 4 in the Chanel Series) Plus the Seven Steps to Closure by Donna Joy Usher

Author:Donna Joy Usher
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780648015321
Publisher: Donna Joy Usher
Published: 2017-01-19T00:00:00+00:00

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Dinah was already up when I woke. I could smell coffee brewing and hear the distinctive clacking of my laptop keyboard. I wondered what she was doing.

‘Morning,’ she said brightly, as I emerged from my room. ‘Hope I didn’t wake you.’

I shook my head and stared at her in disbelief. No strewn contents of the box of tissues I had placed on her bedside table last night. No huge black bags, the tell-tale sign of hours of weeping. Not even any signs of a hangover for that matter.

‘Wow,’ I said impressed. ‘You look great. Are you as good as you look?’

‘Yeah, I feel good. I drank a couple of litres of water during the night.’

‘Hmmm. I wasn’t referring to your hangover. I was meaning are you fine with the whole Creepy Doug thing.’

She laughed in surprise and then nodded her head thoughtfully. ‘Creepy Doug?’

‘Sorry, our pet name for him.’

‘Don’t be sorry. I like it. And in answer to your question – I feel lighter. I feel free. I feel like I can finally move on with my life. I feel like he doesn’t matter one little bit. I can’t believe the amount of time I wasted on him. And I’m not even angry about last night. I’m thankful that it happened.’

Elaine and Natalie had entered with grocery bags while she was talking.

‘That sounds like closure to me,’ said Elaine.

‘Yeah, I feel like by taking back control of my life I’ve had closure on our relationship.’

‘Ooohh,’ I said jealously, ‘you’ve had closure. That’s not fair. Elaine how come she gets to have closure without having to sleep with anyone?’

‘But I did sleep with someone,’ said Dinah innocently, ‘you, last night.’

I threw a cushion at her. ‘Yeah well I slept with you, and a fat lot of good it did me.’

It was as we were eating the bacon and eggs that Dinah brought up her plans for the future. ‘I’m going overseas for a few weeks,’ she said casually.

‘Who with?’ asked Nat

‘When?’ asked Elaine.

‘By myself, I’m not sure when. I’m still waiting for an email to see if there is any space for me. Look at this.’ She jumped up from the table and grabbed my laptop. ‘I’ve been looking into this for a while, and after last night I wasn’t sure what I’d been waiting for, so this morning I emailed them.’

‘Emailed who?’ I asked.

‘The administration of Mercy Ships, they’re big floating hospitals. The one I’m looking at is called African Mercy.’ She started reading off the computer. ‘It has 6 operating theatres, 78 recovery beds and more than 450 volunteers manning it. They have a CT scan and x-ray and even laboratory services on board. It travels from town to town around Africa.’ She looked up from the computer. ‘I just feel I could do so much more to help people than I am.’

Nat took the computer from her. ‘Listen to this. They do a lot of work for women who have obstetric fistula.’

Elaine winced. ‘That sounds painful.’

‘It’s leakage of urine and faeces, caused by prolonged labour.

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