C69 69 LOVE IN SHADOWS

"Mum, are you alright—you aren't looking well. What is going on? Are you sick or—"

"I am not sick, Max. I guess I am just tired, perhaps shopping late into the evening yesterday is telling on me—your father was not specific about when he is flying back home. He said soon, but he said it depends on the nature of the work left in London. So it may be another few weeks from today