Passion Bay by Jennifer Fulton

Author:Jennifer Fulton [Fulton, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Lesbian, General, Lesbians
ISBN: 9781932300253
Google: AmoAAAAACAAJ
Amazon: 1932300252
Publisher: Yellow Rose by RCE
Published: 1992-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

Looking for distraction in the two hours she had to kill before the flight, Annabel decided to sort out once and for all why Aunt Annie had insisted that she come to Moon Island. She had allowed herself to become so absorbed by Cody over the past week, she had given the mystery little time. And, if she were completely honest with herself, she had been relieved to have an excuse to abandon those uncomfortable forays into her aunt’s private world. No matter how much she told herself that Aunt Annie wouldn’t have written that letter if she hadn’t wanted Annabel to do what she was doing, it still felt underhanded and voyeuristic.

With reluctant fingers, she opened the diary to where she had hurriedly closed it a week ago.

I am so fed up with this great big stomach and constant rushing to the bathroom. Rebecca is very patient with me, the dear angel. No matter how crotchety and unreasonable my demands, she is all tenderness. Sometimes I feel so frightened about having the baby and I hate the way my body is out of control. The doctor says I have only a week or so to endure this discomfort and I have certainly reached the stage where I shall sing and dance the day I feel my first pains. Rebecca has already engaged a nurse for the baby and we have chosen a list of names, all girls’!

Annabel slid a bookmark into the diary and dropped it heavily onto her knee. Her heart was racing. She felt dizzy, a little nauseated. Aunt Annie had had a baby. She couldn’t believe it. What had happened to the child? Was there a child?

Agitated, she began flicking through the pages to catch phrases, words.

… took so long...weak… The baby is so beautiful, the most beautiful baby in the world… Rebecca is besotted. We are calling her Lucy… leaving for Moon Island tomorrow...so tired but Lucy is a vision…

The entire diary was full of Lucy. Lucy’s first smile, sitting up, eating solids, first words, starting to walk. Annabel’s hands were shaking uncontrollably by the time she reached the final page. Her whole body felt slippery with perspiration.

Lucy! She had never heard anyone mention a cousin. They’d be the same age this year—thirty-three. Annabel felt momentary outrage, quickly followed by pain. She thought of her huge toy-filled bedroom, the inanimate playmates that had substituted for other children, the desperate loneliness of her growing up.

From the time she was a small child, she had been so painfully shy about her appearance that she had trouble making friends. People had never meant to be cruel. She came to realize that eventually. But their comments and stares had made her profoundly self-conscious. The sensitive child she had been was forced deep into a protective shell.

How different it would have been if she’d had a sister, a cousin, to grow up with—Lucy. Annabel bit her lip and located her aunt’s next diary. For a moment she sat just holding it, a curious heaviness settling on her chest.

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