Chapter 26:

As dawn broke, Tom was wide awake, in strange, embellished surroundings - an expansive bedroom with high ceiling and tall portrait windows. He didn’t sleep well. This, the third room he had laid his young head in three months. He was troubled, fearful, uncertain as he peered through the window across the sprawling heathland he cherished, the landscape beyond an outspread blanket of beauty. Never had he been granted such perfected comfort, but a feeling of belonging was nowhere to be found. The warmth of his mother’s breast, the beating heart of his father, a memory.

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