The Lifeline by Libby Page EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Libby Page
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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Down by the river, Kate can finally breathe. The sun is not quite up as she
sits on the end of the pontoon dangling her bare toes in the murky green
water, feeling suspended between night and day. Everything around her is
dim and quiet, a light mist resting on the surface of the river, broken by the
slender arms of the willow trees that dip down into the water.
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As her light brown hair tickles her face in the breeze, she scoops it up
into a messy bun using the hairband that lives permanently on her right
wrist, trying to remember as she does when she last showered. But the trees
and the birds don’t care about the state of her hair or her thrown-together
outfit of tracksuit bottoms and hoody. There’s no judgement here by the
river in the early hours of this late spring morning.
Leaning back on her hands, she practises the breathing exercises she has
mastered over the years. In, one, two, three, out, one, two, three … After
each deep inhale, she pauses, noticing the quiet gurgles of the water and the
smell of wild garlic in the air.
Her shoulders sink down as she exhales. For once, she is able to hear the
thoughts in her own head. Not that she wants to listen to them. Instead, she
tunes in to the swishing of the long grass in the meadow behind her. The
freedom she feels down here by the water feels stolen, but she grabs hold of
it anyway.
The truth is, she shouldn’t be here. Not this early in the morning and
when nobody in the entire world knows where she is. It’s not the kind of
thing that someone like her should do, someone who, despite how she
might sometimes feel, is undeniably a grown-up with grown-up
responsibilities. She is thirty-two and has a mortgage and life insurance, for
goodness’ sake. But oh, the water feels so delicious against her toes.
A sound draws her attention to the riverboat moored a little way
upstream, its roof covered in raucous flowerpots and a couple of beehives.
It seems as though its inhabitant must be getting up, confirmed a few
moments later by a curl of smoke escaping from the chimney. Kate takes
the smell of the woodsmoke as her cue to reluctantly leave, glancing down
at her watch and realising she’s already stayed here far too long.
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