Wish You Were Here (The Wishing Tree Series Book 3) by Kay Bratt

Author:Kay Bratt [Bratt, Kay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Red Thread Publishing Group
Published: 2022-03-08T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

Henry put his head in his hands, unable to watch his wife any longer. For the last hour, she had been having a very heated conversation at the table, her hands moving frantically as she talked, most of her words mumbled incoherently and aimed at an invisible guest in their kitchen.

She’d refused to eat and that meant he hadn’t yet given her any medication, but he needed a moment before trying to tempt her again. She hadn’t even allowed him to help her out of her nightclothes, and she’d skipped her morning hygiene routines again.

As she talked, he caught a word or two here and there. It seemed she was planning an event. Menus, lighting, and flowers were a few things he’d heard in her rant.

After a morning of her following him around so close he swore he could feel her breath on his neck, he was relieved to have a minute of peace to himself. He wasn’t mad at her. He knew she wasn’t herself. But only because she was running on fumes, and in her exhausted state, her mind was taking advantage to torment her further. Or at least that was his humble opinion of her sudden decline into talking to someone who wasn’t there.

He was exhausted, too. They’d been up since three that morning after Greta had catapulted herself out of her bed and landed on the humidifier he’d plugged in just beside her on the floor.

It wasn’t clear why she’d taken the leap, but they were lucky it wasn’t more serious than it was. And next time…well, he didn’t even want to think of what could’ve happened.

Greta was bruised but swore there was nothing broken and refused to get dressed so he could take her to be looked over at the clinic.

Now he cursed himself for letting her sleep in her room alone, as well as allowing such a break in their routine the day before when Neva had visited. Since then, Greta had not been herself, slipping in and out of a few tantrums when she couldn’t find the words to tell him why she was upset.

He wasn’t looking forward to telling Neva he didn’t want her to come back, but they should’ve known that they couldn’t suddenly put decades of history behind them as water under the bridge, especially at such a delicate time as now, when Greta was just doing her best to survive.

It was too much. His wife needed things to be quiet and to keep things as close to their normal routine as possible. That meant just the two of them, other than their no-nonsense nurse, who did only what was required and in a hurry at that, before she fled out the door and left them to handle the rest of the day and night alone.

Even that was starting to make him nervous, but Greta needed him to be her advocate, and that meant it was his duty to protect her from herself and from the things that would upset her current fragile existence.

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