Junction X (30 page)

Perhaps I’m so deluded that I think Val would read it and understand. Forgive. Say nicer things of me to the children, including the child I’ll never know. But she won’t. Alex never understood and could never have understood my feelings for Val, just as Val—well, there’s no point.

I should take it with me. If there were a blazing log fire here, or one in that freezing station hall, I could perform a grand gesture and watch it blacken, curl and disappear.

And Alex—my Alexander—would be lost forever.

I should take it with me.

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