Coming Home to Hope Street by Marcie Steele

Author:Marcie Steele [Steele, Marcie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-09-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Seven

The following morning, Livvy lay on the settee in her front room with a mild headache. When the book shop closed, Kate had announced that she’d prepped a lunch buffet for them all. Phoebe, who had managed to pop in for ten minutes when the shop had been opened, arrived back at half-past one to join the celebrations. She’d closed Hope Street Hair a little earlier than usual and brought Elliott and Tilly with her. There had been about twenty people in total, the wine had flowed along with the chatter and they’d finally come away around four o’clock.

Livvy had been at home since, relishing the evening sitting in the quiet as Pip had been across the street with Tilly. Today though, Pip was hovering around like she was after something.

‘Don’t you think you should get dressed, Mum?’ Pip asked, once she’d made her a second mug of coffee.

Livvy wasn’t in the mood to get going just yet. She’d been so busy this past week, working way over her allotted hours, yet this morning the cleaning had to be done and there was a pile of ironing threatening to topple over.

‘Leave me here for a while,’ she told Pip, closing her eyes and resting her head back.

‘Are you sure? I can pick you out a nice dress to wear.’

Livvy opened her eyes and frowned. ‘What’re you trying to sweeten me up for?’

‘Nothing.’ Pip’s eyes fell on the clock. It was five minutes to ten.

‘I’m not sure what’s going—’

There was a knock on the door.

‘I’ll get it.’ Pip ran out of the room like an athlete in training.

Livvy closed her eyes again, hoping it was someone who didn’t need her attention.

‘Mum,’ Pip said, coming back through to her. ‘There’s someone to see you.’

‘Hey, Livvy.’

Livvy froze. It couldn’t be… could it?

‘Aren’t you going to say hello?’

She opened her eyes. She had heard right.

It was Kieran.

Several thoughts ran through her head in the time it took for her to sit up. How had he found them? Did it mean he wanted to start again, because she wasn’t sure she could stop her heart beating rapidly at the sight of him?

Had he changed? Because if he had, it might be worth it.

But if he hadn’t, she’d be prolonging the heartache of him running out on them again in a few months, because that’s what had always happened before.

Also, would he upset the family she was just getting to know? Pip had settled in Somerley; she had too, and she didn’t want him to jeopardise anything for them.

And then it dawned on her. Pip must have contacted him.

She looked up at her daughter, with her arms wrapped around her dad’s waist as if she never wanted to let him go. The smile on her face was hard to take. Pip was so pleased to see him, and it stung. It really did. Because in Pip’s eyes, Kieran could do no wrong.

She looked at him then, smiling down at her. He was still as handsome to her as the day they’d met, before she’d dropped out of college to go with him to Birmingham.

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