Chapter 307

Ethna, Alana, and Chloe had been at school together and then stuck with each other while taking further education courses in London: Ethna had taken a degree in history, Alana had gone to drama school, and Chloe had chosen medicine. Declan, having known Chloe’s old friends well and having attended university himself, had joined them in sharing a house during those years of study. The passing years had forged a bond between the four of them that was as close, if not closer, than family; if one of them was hurt, the others felt it, too.