It Felt Like a Kiss by Sarra Manning

Author:Sarra Manning [Manning, Sarra]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, Romance
ISBN: 9781448126095
Google: vlKax2PWXD4C
Goodreads: 17615086
Publisher: Corgi
Published: 2012-12-31T17:00:00+00:00

Camden, London, 1986

Ari was booked into the clinic – she wished she wasn’t as far gone as she was, but she couldn’t change that. It was Billy who was having trouble dealing with it.

‘It’s our baby,’ he murmured on the night before the termination was due, his curly head resting on her belly. Ari was too bloated with indigestion to push him away.

‘It’s not a baby,’ she told him for the hundredth time, the word making her lips curl. ‘It’s just a parasite squatting in my uterus. We agreed, Billy.’

‘We did. Anyway I’ve already got one and that hasn’t worked out so well.’ He changed position, so he was spooned in behind her. ‘I had this idea before Lara was born that I’d try to be a good father, but I’ve never been much of a father or a husband or any of the other things that people expected me to be.’

‘I’ve never expected anything from you,’ Ari reminded him because if she didn’t expect anything from him, then he’d never disappoint her.

‘I know you didn’t, but everything’s different with you, Ari,’ Billy said, cupping her chin so she had to turn her head to look at him. ‘Just think. It’s my genes, your genes. It’s our legacy just as much as the songs are, and the songs might never get heard, but this …’ His hand curved over the bulge that had started to make its presence felt and meant that Ari couldn’t get into her tightest dresses any more. ‘We made this. Our love made this.’

‘We weren’t in love when your sperm found a way to my egg.’ She knocked his hand away. ‘For fuck’s sake, I thought I was the one who was meant to be a slave to my hormones. I’m not keeping it!’

‘I’m not asking you to. We’re going somewhere and a kid would slow us down, but you could have it, couldn’t you?’ He shrugged, tried to make a joke out of it. ‘We could probably get Georgina to look after it if we paid her in chocolate.’

‘She would. She’d love that. It would be the ultimate Billy Kay fan artefact,’ Ari said sourly, but when Billy’s hand covered her stomach again, she rested her hand on top of his and she thought of the baby. A little boy with Billy’s dark eyes and sweet smile. Not his nose, though. Her nose. And, hopefully, a sweeter temper than both his parents.

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