Over a Spitfire by Sherrie Lowe

Author:Sherrie Lowe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: historical, romance, fiction, reincarnation, supernatural, afterlife, WWII, Spitfire, aircraft, AirTransportAuxiliary
Publisher: Sherrie Lowe
Published: 2018-10-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 2

March 1946

“It’s a boy!”

The midwife held the child up for his mother to see as he slipped from her body. Ethel Robinson, exhausted from her exertions leaned up to look then lay back onto her pillows.

“That’s nice. Child number five, another boy after three girls. I hope that’s it now, I can’t cope with anymore. Is he all right?”

“Yes, he’s a grand bonny boy, good pair of lungs too.” The baby was letting out a lusty cry at his entrance to the world. “I’ll go and call his father to let him know that all is well.” She wrapped the child up and passed him to his mother.

Ethel looked down at her newborn son, tenderly stroking a finger across his face. He’d been a surprise this one. They thought they’d been so careful but not careful enough it seemed. At thirty four she felt she was too old to be having more children and she hoped that this one would be the last. She’d been twenty one when Robert, their eldest was born. Then had followed Rona when she was twenty four, Pauline two years later and Janet three years after that. Now here she was again with a new baby. She loved her children dearly but she didn’t want anymore.

She studied her baby’s face as he lay in her arms, the exquisite features, the blond hair, like his father’s – he was the only one to have it, the others had her dark colouring. He looked so like his father too, her handsome Charles, known to his friends as Charlie.

They’d met in 1931 when she was nineteen and he twenty. She’d worked in a butcher’s shop and he regularly came in for meat or pies and she soon got to know his preferences.

“Pork pie sir?” she’d say with a smile and he’d respond with a wink and say, “Yes please, you’re getting to know me well.”

She’d been captivated by his fair good looks and twinkling blue eyes and she’d looked out for him every day, her heart lifting as soon as he walked through the door. She’d hurriedly finish serving her customer to serve him and was oh so disappointed if her middle aged supervisor got there first. Nevertheless he usually had a smile for Ethel which went some way to appeasing her spirits. She hadn’t been able to believe her luck when one day he’d asked if she’d like to go for a walk after work. The day couldn’t end fast enough and there he was, waiting for her as she left the shop. They’d just walked around the town but it had been the most beautiful walk she’d ever taken and from then on they began courting, marrying when she was twenty.

They’d been blessed with Robert first, then the girls, Janet the youngest arriving in 1941. Charlie, a steelworker, had been manufacturing Spitfires; he made the fuselages in the metal works that had been requisitioned for such a purpose. Although he wasn’t fighting they’d lived in

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