Chapter Ten Cleethorpes, North-East Lincolnshire, the United Kingdom, and Paris, France
If capable of thought, a fly on the wall of Angel Sirius’s living room would have decided that he had lost his mind. In that case, it would have identified the wrong organ because it was his heart that had gone, not his brain. The cause: Angel sat with the cover of Vogue in his hands and stared fixedly, without moving, at the glossy image of the young woman.
On arriving home, he had managed to get past the picture to read the inside article, so he discovered that she was just nineteen, his age, and was named Adhara by her Lebanese mother. Her father was English but, like Angel, she was an orphan, as her parents had been drowned at sea in a sailing accident. So, they had the tragic loss of their parent
