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of where exactly she was even going with the sentence. What exactly was she expecting? Spending time with Rosalind was pointless. She was so out of it now she didn’t know when Ellie was there. Ellie didn’t even know if she understood what was being said to her even when her mother was awake. The doctors hadn’t been able to tell her anything with any great certainty.
    The only thing Ellie knew for sure was that her mother seemed to spend more and more time asleep and when she was awake she seemed frightened… It broke Ellie’s heart to think that maybe her mother was living in a world that didn’t make sense, that maybe she was constantly terrified. If that was true then Ellie didn’t know what else she could do to make her more comfortable, less afraid.
    “You’re too hard on yourself, Ellie. She knows you’re doing the best you can.”
    “I sense a ‘but’ in there,” Ellie answered.
    “But she would be better off in a place where she can get the round the clock care that your mom needs. Rosalind is strong and it’s great that she’s gone this far… I know right after her stroke her prognosis wasn’t good but she’s starting to really deteriorate now. Ellie, you need to think of what’s best for not just her but you too.”
    “Selena, I can’t do it to her. It would kill her. Being here, being at home it’s where she belongs.”
    Selena sighed and shook her head.
    “Ellie, I know you want what’s best for her but trust me when I say she’s only going to get worse. There will come a time when you’ll have a tough decision to make.”
    “But that time isn’t yet?”
    Selena shrugged. “I suppose not. For now we’re managing but, Ellie, I can see the weariness in you and I just don’t know how far you can go.”
    “When the time comes, Selena, I’ll make the decision but for now, if I can keep her here, where she belongs for as long as I can, then I will.”
    Selena nodded and drew Ellie into a hug.
    “You’re a good daughter, Ellie. She would be so proud of you.”
    Ellie shook her head and pulled out of the embrace.
    “No, there’s more I should be doing…”
    Selena shook her head again. “Let’s not get into another argument. Here, I forgot to give you this.” She held out a white envelope. “It came this morning.”
    Ellie took it, her heart sinking as she recognised the postmarks on the letter. She plastered a smile across her face in an attempt to hide from Selena what she was thinking.
    She turned and started down the stairs, holding the letter in her trembling hands. Ellie didn’t open it until she made it back to the car.
    Pulling the folded sheet of paper out, she stared down at the typed words. Another letter from the bank, and it wasn’t friendly. The account was growing dangerously low on funds and Ellie knew that once her father’s insurance money finally ran out, that would be it… They would take the house, there would be nothing left to pay her mother’s medical bills.
    Scrunching the letter up, Ellie threw it across the car, letting it bounce down onto the floor. The hard decision was coming and with the way things were looking money-wise, Ellie would have to make it before she lost everything.

Chapter 7
    T he drive back up to Mattheson’s house was shorter than Stuart had hoped for. He contemplated just driving down to the beach and walking along the shore.
    Stuart had seen the way Mattheson had grabbed Ellie. He’d heard her small scream, and the look of fear in her eyes had been unmistakable. But there had been something else there too. She was obviously a fighter.
    Stuart had seen that look before, a look of sheer determination, that no matter the cost they would succeed. Unfortunately, Stuart had a feeling that Mattheson wasn’t the type of man to let someone like Ellie stand up to him for too long. He would crush her and that wasn’t something Stuart wanted to ever see happen. He had no idea why but there was something about Ellie that made him