Forgotten Child by Kitty Neale

Author:Kitty Neale [Neale, Kitty]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: General Fiction
ISBN: 9780007399420
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2010-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Two

Marcos awoke on Sunday morning and for a moment felt disorientated. He felt an arm snake around him, and as realisation crept into his foggy mind he smiled. This was no dream – this was real, his new life. Turning on his side, he said, ‘Good morning, darling.’

Jenny’s expression was dreamy as she snuggled closer. ‘Marcos, wouldn’t it be wonderful if I’m having a baby?’

‘Yes, it certainly would,’ he agreed, for a moment daring to hope it was possible, but then, as though she was in the room with them, hissing her venom in his ear, words his mother had once spoken curled insidiously into his brain. You think yourself a man, but you are nothing. You can’t even make babies, can’t give me nipoti. He cringed from the memory, and as Jenny spoke, his arms tightened around her.

‘Marcos, what would you like for breakfast?’

‘You, of course,’ he said, determined to prove his mother wrong. With Jenny the miracle could happen, he could become a father, but one thing was certain, his mother would never know the joy of holding a grandchild in her arms.

‘Oh, Marcos,’ Jenny gasped when it was over and he was spent.

Unlike the others, Marcos knew Jenny wasn’t pretending; she didn’t have the wiles for that. She had climaxed this time and Marcos felt a surge of pure happiness. He’d been belittled so many times that he’d almost been made incapable, but then he’d found a way. He had paid for his pleasures elsewhere, and the toms hadn’t dared to snigger.

‘I need the bathroom,’ Jenny said, unravelling the tangle of sheets to get out of bed.

‘Me too, and coffee.’

‘Give me a minute and then I’ll set up the percolator.’

Marcos waited until the bathroom was free. After breakfast he’d drop Jenny off at her flat, and then make his way to Battersea. Though he had made a stupid promise to his father before he died, and guilt had made him keep that vow, he’d envisaged this confrontation so many times in his mind.

Now it was going to become a reality and Marcos was about to break the vow, to sever the ties that had bound him for so long. The leeches would be off his back, and if his old man came back to haunt him, so be it.

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