‘Seeing his empty seat on the plane, I broke down’ Squinting against the sunshine, I flopped on the lounger and topped up my sun cream.
It was the last day of our fortnight’s all-inclusive holiday to Benidorm.
My partner Neil Ellerington, 43, was lying beside me, while our two sons Nathan, 10, and Jaden, 4, splashed in the pool.
‘How lucky are we?’ I sighed.
Ten years had passed since we’d first visited the Spanish resort in the first flushes of love. Back then, we’d come to party until the small hours of the morning. Of course, a decade and two children later, things were a little different.
Conscious of our early transfer to the airport, we only drank a few lagers in the hotel bar before heading back to…
