Coming Home to Seashell Cottage by Jessica Redland

Author:Jessica Redland [Redland, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Boldwood Books

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✉︎ From Elise

Hi everyone. Baby’s on the way! BP’s continued to rise and pre-eclampsia’s getting worse so they induced me early this morning. Waters have just been broken and everything seems to be happening. She’ll be 31 weeks tomorrow so scared but excited about early arrival. Been taking steroids to build her lungs so hopefully she’ll be OK. Stevie or I will text with news and a name when she’s born xx

Jesus! Thirty-one weeks. Elise must be terrified. After visiting her in hospital the week before, I’d Googled it and it seemed that thirty weeks was the magic number for a high survival rate so the odds were in her favour, as long as there were no further complications.

I strapped Luke into his car seat. ‘Are you ready to visit Mammy and Daddy?’ He stared at me and blew some bubbles. ‘I’ll take that as a yes. When you’re with your mammy today, will you ask her to stop sulking and accept that what happened when she was born was completely out of my control? I just want to see my daughter and try to make up for all the lost years.’ Luke blew some more bubbles. ‘Good boy! I knew you were the man for the job!’

I tried to relax as I drove to Jimmy’s. Again. To drop Luke off. Again. To face Callum’s slumped shoulders, the bags under his eyes and that apologetic expression. Again. It had been nine days since she’d woken up. Nine bloody days, yet she still point-blank refused to talk about me, never mind meet me. It broke my heart that she refused to let me in. If she had her way, I wouldn’t get to see Luke at all and I certainly wouldn’t be the one providing a roof over his head, but Callum had put his foot down. He’d moved into a visitor’s room but the reliance on his crutches and the recovery from appendicitis meant he couldn’t have Luke with him. Shannon wasn’t well enough to look after Luke and the hospital had already done their bit so Shannon didn’t really have a choice. I would remain as Luke’s primary care-giver and she’d have to like it or lump it.

‘Let’s take it as a good sign that she only had to be sedated the once,’ I said to Luke, as we drove towards Jimmy’s. ‘Did you have words with her and tell her that I’m not so bad?’

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