Austyn was right; there was nothing he could do to help.
On the one hand was Austyn's wife who, from what Jesse had seen over the past few months, was rapidly becoming the love of of his life.
On the other was his mother's life.
No one could make that choice for Austyn
All Jesse could do was hand over the Johnnie Walker.
Alcohol was not a solution, but at least it offered a temporary e
rescape.
Kira came out of the bathroom.
She had been making increasingly frequent trips to the loo ever since her pregnancy.
she checked the time.
It was two minutes past ten pin.
Austyn was not home yet
Work must have held him up,
She fell backwards onto the bed and sighed.
Austyn must be under a lot of stress recently.
His mother was severely ill and had less than a month to live.
Yet he couldn't just abandon work and ignore his thousands of employees
It would take superhuman strength for him to carry on and not collapse.
Kara's heart went out to him
She wished there was something she could do, some way she could lessen his burden
But she had zero training in either medicine or business,
Not for the first time, Kira wished she were smarter
She almost jumped out of her skin when a loud banging came fi
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Elsie was staying at the hospital with Charlotte
Kira was inthe house alone.
Who could be knocking on the door at ten o'clock at night?
It wasn't Austyn, for sure.
He had a key.
Kita got dressed in a hurry and dashed downstairs, armed with her phone in one hand and Elsie's milling pin in the other
The pounding on the door had not ceased in the meanwhile,
"Who's there?" She stood behind the door.
She tried to look through the peephole but it was too dark outside to see.
'It's me!" Jesse shouted, "Open up!'
'De Chase?' Kira set down the rolling pin and twisted the doorknob. "What are you doing here?"
'Give me a hand." Jesse had one arm flung over Austyn's shoulder and the other around his waist. Austyn's head was bowed.
Kitagawked at him.
She caught the strong stench of alcohol
"Don't just stand there. Come on!"
Kira hurried forward to help.
It took both of them to half-carry, half-drag Austyn into the living room.
Jesse laid him down on the sofa and panted, out of breath.
'How much did he have to drink?' Kira touched Austyn's cheeks, which were burning up..
His eyes were closed
Jesse sprawled on another sofa opposite. "What tool you so long to get the door?!
"I was upstairs.
jesse fanned his face with his hand. I'm thirsty. You got any water?"
"The kitchen's over there. Kira pointed without looking at him.