Chapter 1059 A Pussy & Cocky Gift:>Ep5

• Mike sat huddled in his own private world, trembling with fear for his beloved Lissa; he'd thought he was scared before, now his fears were realised, and he knew with stomach-wrenching certainty what real fear was. Lissa was somewhere near, the thickness of a few walls away, and she was dying; he was here, and there was nothing he could do about it, no action that could make this not have happened. Now it was reality time, and the reality was that she was dying.
• All he could do was blame himself; he should have driven her, he'd never have taken the Bath Road, it was a death-trap, an accident black-spot because of all the heavy lorries and tankers thundering along it, using it as a rat-run to bypass the chaos of the M4 motorway in the morning rush-hour.
• How long he sat there brooding he didn't know; at some point the doctor came in and had a whispered conversation with his father, who then called him closer.