Chapter 492

From pancakes, they’d gone to gardening. Emma shared her plans with Devi and Kirra. She would let the lease go on her flat and move back in here permanently. It meant she would be on hand if Devi needed her and hopefully give some stability for Kirra’s final year of school. After she graduated and went off to uni, Emma could look at what would happen next. They all agreed that if they were going to live there, they would need to fix the place up. The poor house had suffered as much neglect as their family unit and in repairing the damage in one, they hoped to repair the damage in the other. After lunch, Devi went to rest and Kirra went out with friends, leaving Emma to herself. Thoughts of Jonathon, which she had kept at bay most of the day, snuck back in and she allowed herself to grieve the loss of him in her life. She treated him badly and it was her own fault that things turned out the way they did. She loved him, she knew she did, but he deserved someone better, someone who had he