“He hoped Emily hadn’t guessed that the pain had come back with a vengeance on the way home. After a couple of calming breaths, he crossed his room, opened the drawer in his bedside table and snatched up the bottle of pills, downing two tablets swiftly, grimacing. He sank onto the edge of his bed and felt the facade he’d worn all afternoon peel away. He’d enjoyed the company of Emily and her grandmother. In fact, he’d been somewhat stunned by how very much he’d enjoyed lunching with them. No dou...bt he’d been grateful for the diversion. But now he allowed himself, for the first time since he’d left the doctor’s office, to consider his fate. There’d been good news and bad. The doctor had been quite cheerful as he delivered the good news that a growth on Jude’s pituitary gland was not malignant. Apparently these tumours were relatively common and could be removed by simple, but necessary, surgery via the nose. The gland was not secreting excess hormones, so Jude was lucky in that respect.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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