Lessons in Heartbreak
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Lily beamed at them. ‘Just a moment,’ she whispered. ‘I’m coming.’
She turned to Jamie and touched his hand.
‘Thank you,’ she said to him. ‘Thank you for teaching me how to love. I don’t think I knew how until you taught me. And I’m sorry, I had to let you go, you know that.’
Robby and Alice were closer now.
Jamie’s hands slipped through hers. He was smiling, disappearing somehow.
Lily looked past him at her husband and daughter.
They’d waited for her: she’d always been afraid they wouldn’t and yet, here they were, smiling, holding out their arms. And she ran to them, to the two people she loved most.
About the Author
Lessons in Heartbreak
Cathy Kelly is a number one international bestselling author. She worked as a journalist before becoming a novelist, and has published nine previous novels. She is an Ambassador for Unicef in Ireland, helping to raise awareness of the plight of 12 million children orphaned across Africa through AIDS. She lives in Wicklow with her family.
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