“Are you sure?” Alice asked, her eyes held firmly on the door of Ashleigh’s room as though she could see through it to the man sleeping inside.
“It’s him,” Ashleigh said with a quiet nod.
“Liam agrees,” Maeve added.
Alice took a deep breath and closed her eyes.
“Five days?” she asked.
Ashleigh chewed her lips between her teeth but said nothing.
“Today makes six,” Maeve replied, looking at her wristwatch, showing that the sun had already risen. Soon the other hotel guests would expect their breakfast to arrive at their doors.
Alice swallowed and lowered her gaze to the floor.
“Why haven’t you said anything?” Alice asked. “To anyone.”
Ashleigh swallowed.
“I needed to be sure he was really him and then explain all that has happened to him. There was no reason to get anyone's hopes up if there was a chance it wasn’t real.”
Alice scoffed and gave Ashleigh a look of incredulity.
