“Must’ve been rough,” the DS continued. Patrick smiled, but it was a sad, empty sort of thing. “You can say that again. They were my only family, you know? When they went, I was on my own. For the first time ever—well, for the first time since I was abandoned—I was on my own. And I hated it.”
I wonder what it’s going to be like when my mum goes, I’ll be alone for all intents and purposes. Of course there’s extended family, but that’s in name only, I could walk past most of them in the street and never know it.
