Fight Back by Anna Smith

Author:Anna Smith [SMITH, ANNA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781787473881
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2018-03-25T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

Kerry awoke with a feeling of excitement, the first thought to come to her that she would be meeting Vinny this morning. She lay with her eyes closed, images of their final lunch together flooding her mind. That afternoon, as they’d sat opposite each other in her favourite Italian restaurant, La Lanterna, she’d been clear and even a little cool with him as they both knew that the relationship as it was really had nowhere to go. She probably shouldn’t even have been having lunch with him, far less the brief nights of passion they’d shared. But it was what it was, she’d decided at the time, and even though Vinny had looked a bit dejected, he would know in himself that this was how it had to be. But they’d parted as friends, both of them trying to play down any feelings they had about each other. And for Kerry’s part, her mind was made up anyway. There was no room for Vinny in her life. That was before she discovered she was pregnant with his child. Yet even now, as she lay, the palm of her hand resting on her navel, trying to imagine the little life inside her, she was still sure there was no future for her and Vinny, so there was no point in even fantasising – despite the feelings that stirred in her.

Kerry had learned to build walls like that from early on, when her mum had sent her away as a teenager to live in Spain. There was no point in weeping for ever for things that you couldn’t change, things you could not have. It had stood her in good stead all of her life – except when she suffered the miscarriage a year ago which had taken the heart from her and left her paralysed with grief. But she was getting over all of that now. A new heart beat inside her, and soon she would go to the doctor and organise a scan so that she could see the baby for real, and love it even more, if that was possible. She stretched her hands behind her head and lay listening to the activity outside, cars coming and going, voices of the security guards. The place had been buzzing with people in the last twenty-four hours, but up here in her bedroom and study on the first floor, she was solitary. She could indulge herself in these reveries like this, allowing herself to think of what her life would be if she was just an ordinary woman expecting a baby and waiting for the father to come and see her.

She sighed and picked up the remote control and clicked on the television where the news was blaring. She peered at the image of a large building ablaze somewhere in the city. Then she heard the reporter describe an Asian warehouse on the Clydeside that had been burned to the ground last night, which the police were treating as an arson attack.

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