Richelle Dunn only got home a bit past 2 a.m., and after stepping through the door, she cleaned herself up with a bath. As she lay in bed, she finally turned on her phone, which she had left shut off for nearly half a day.
Her first notification was a WhatsApp message from Roy Lewis.
"Let me know when you get home."
Roy sent the message at 11:50 p.m., presumably just before he went to bed.
But now, it was pushing three in the morning, a time when Roy Lewis would usually be asleep.
Richelle hovered over the reply box, hesitating for a moment before eventually locking the phone and setting it aside, ready to sleep.
Before she offered him medical help, Roy had been taking sleeping pills for many years.
For somebody with insomnia, any disruption to sleep would be a cardinal sin.
But just minutes after putting away her phone, it rang.
Who could that be at this late hour?
Richelle was dumbfounded for a moment, her first guess being her unbridled mentor.