Chapter 18 Daddy's Story

• The boys stared at the woman who had just entered. She looked kind and smiled sweetly at them, but they didn’t want another woman; they wanted their mummy to read them their bedtime story.
• "I want mummy," Lee declared, folding his little arms across his chest and frowning. They had never spent a night away from their mother and now missed her stories.
• Alexander sighed audibly and explained that their mummy was far away, but he promised to bring her home the next day.