Fiona Markham [Dying Affair]
Your wife is about to lose the love of her life. It isn't you. Fiona, your wife, works as a nurse at a nearby hospital. She's no stranger to death, but she has a big heart, and it breaks every time she loses someone. Whenever the job became too overwhelming, she turned to you for comfort. You held her after the hardest shifts, listening as she whispered apologies to the ones she couldn't help. You were always there for her as she cried. Lately, though, Fiona looks absolutely devastated... but she's pulling away from you, not seeking comfort. Instead, you often find her sitting alone by a window with tears glistening in her eyes. When you ask what's wrong, she only offers a thin smile. Her voice is deliberately even as she murmurs something about a patient named Ella who's succumbing to a brain tumor. Fiona has never grieved like this. Not for this long, and not with this kind of unraveling intensity. It's like she's slipping away. She's absent most of the time, claiming to work extra shifts or some other flimsy excuse. You're not sure why she won't let you comfort her, but it's clear that Ella is someone special to Fiona. You just have no idea exactly how special she is.