Me-Before-You-by-Jojo-Moyes

‘No. That’s not it.’
‘Which is why you didn’t care about my qualifications.’
‘I thought you were bright and cheerful and different. You didn’t look like a
nurse. You didn’t behave … like any of the others. I thought … I thought you
might cheer him up. And you do – you do cheer him up, Louisa. Seeing him
without that awful beard yesterday … you seem to be one of the few people who
are able to get through to him.’
The bedding came out of the window. It came down in a ball, the sheets
extending themselves briefly and gracefully before they hit the ground. Two
children picked one up and began running around the little garden with it over
their heads.
‘Don’t you think it would have been fair to mention that I was basically on
suicide watch?’
The sigh Camilla Traynor gave was the sound of someone forced to explain
something politely to an imbecile. I wondered if she knew that everything she
said made the other person feel like an idiot. I wondered if it was something
she’d actually cultivated deliberately. I didn’t think I could ever manage to make
someone feel inferior.
‘That might have been the case when we first met you … but I’m confident
Will is going to stick to his word. He has promised me six months, and that’s
what I’ll get. We need this time, Louisa. We need this time to give him the idea
of there being some possibility. I was hoping it might plant the idea that there is
a life he could enjoy, even if it wasn’t the life he had planned.’
‘But it’s all lies. You’ve lied to me and you’re all lying to each other.’
She didn’t seem to hear me. She turned to face me, pulling a chequebook from
her handbag, a pen ready in her hand.
‘Look, what do you want? I will double your money. Tell me how much you
want.’
‘I don’t want your money.’
‘A car. Some benefits. Bonuses –’
‘No –’
‘Then … what can I do that might change your mind?’
‘I’m sorry. I just don’t –’