![]() The emotion was so intense, it literally frightened her. A golden girl with beauty, intelligence and everything to live for.until Damon Terzakis had come into her life and laid it to waste. At eighteen, Callie had been on the shady boundary line between child and adult. And Callie hadn’t even been a woman in her sister’s opinion. Women didn’t die in childbirth these days. She flinched inwardly away from the word and began to walk up the corridor on legs that didn’t feel strong enough to support her. She wondered if on some strange wavelength he knew that his mother was dead. He was Mediterranean-dark, his foreign ancestry clearly apparent. He had a shock of black hair and a pair of furious dark eyes. Her attention had locked into her nephew. ![]() The nurse stopped smiling but Sarah didn’t notice. She looked back at the nurse, her fine-boned face ashen and strained, her facial muscles frozen into a mask. She probably didn’t know, Sarah thought numbly. ![]() The nurse wheeled over her nephew’s cot and displayed him with a wide smile. ![]() And every minute, every agonising hour of it was etched into her soul. It had been a long night and a devastating dawn. ![]() Only the most fierce self-discipline held back her exhaustion. Every muscle in her body was rigid with tension. SARAH stood still as a statue at the glass viewing window. ![]()
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