Christmas in Bluebell Cove by Abigail Gordon - Bluebell Cove 02 - Christmas in Bluebell Cove

Author:Abigail Gordon - Bluebell Cove 02 - Christmas in Bluebell Cove [Gordon, Abigail]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781426879883
Amazon: B004GEAIEY
Barnesnoble: B004GEAIEY
Goodreads: 9801746
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-01-01T16:00:00+00:00

How could she have endured talking about babies when she still hadn’t told Ethan that she was carrying their child? Francine thought as she walked slowly down to the beach where holidaymakers and local people were enjoying the last hour of sunlight before it turned to dusk.

As she looked around her she considered that most of those frolicking on the sand and challenging the incoming tide with surfboards at the ready would think her insane in wanting to leave Bluebell Cove.

But the house in France was all she had left of loving parents and a happy childhood, and though Ethan understood that, his loyalty to his commitments here in the village came first and he did not want to leave them for a life across the Channel.

As she looked down at the beginning of a thickening waistline the evidence was there that another commitment, a joint one, was on its way, and she was going to have to tell him about it before someone else picked up on it first.

She began to retrace her steps with sudden urgency, hoping he hadn’t already left to spend the evening with Jenna and Lucas. To her surprise, as she began to walk the short distance back to the village she saw him coming towards her, and she took a deep breath. Why not let this be the moment of truth? she thought.

Ethan would understand why she hadn’t wanted to listen to Jenna’s joyful mother-to-be talk when he knew.

‘Why aren’t you with Jenna and Lucas?’ she asked uncomfortably.

‘I was on my way and saw you in the distance.’

‘Oh. I see.’ Feeling as if her legs would give way beneath her, she sank down onto one of the wooden benches that were dotted along the cliff path and pointed to the space beside her but he didn’t take the hint.

‘We need to talk,’ she told him as he stood looking down at her. ‘Have you got a moment to spare?’’

He almost groaned out loud at the question. Was it a reminder that she still felt herself to be low on his list of priorities?

‘Yes, of course I have,’ he said abruptly. ‘What is it you have to say?’

‘I’m pregnant, Ethan.’

‘Wow!’ he breathed collapsing into the vacant place beside her.

‘Yes, and I’m sure you will have no difficulty in recalling how and when it came about.’

‘None whatsoever,’ he said huskily. His stunned acceptance of what she’d just told him had made his throat go dry. On a tide of rising joy he said what she’d been expecting him to say. ‘And you’ve waited until you are almost four months pregnant before telling me? Yet I shouldn’t have needed telling. Your listlessness and pallor during the first months and then a sudden blooming should have made me realise.

‘I presume that you kept it from me because I’d misled you about the reason for me being in Paris that weekend. Because you still think I was only there for the sex.’

‘You presume wrongly,’ she protested. ‘I didn’t tell

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