CHAPTER 144

DECLAN

I have to be here a bit longer and I hate it. I hate the fact that I am being separated from my wife, I hate the fact that I am being kept away from my kids, but some things cannot be helped.

With my finger intertwined in Hazel’s hand, we walked through the garden, each lost in their thought. Hazel didn’t want to leave either, I saw it in the way she stared at her suitcase, I saw it in the