Petals In the Wind by V.C. Andrews

Author:V.C. Andrews [Andrews, V.C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780671729479
Amazon: 0671729470
Publisher: Pocket
Published: 1980-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

women before Julia drowned my son, that was lesson enough for me to change my ways. There was no other woman until you! I've even heard it rumored that Amanda has spread it about that I made you pregnant and your D & C

was actually an abortion. You see what a spiteful woman can do-anything!"

Now it was too late, too late. He asked me again to stop crying.

"Amanda," I said stiffly, my control about to break. "She said that D & C was the same as an abortion. She said you kept the embryo, one with two heads. I've seen that thing in your office in a bottle. Paul, how could you keep it? Why didn't you have it buried? A monster baby! It isn't fair-it isn't-why, why?"

He groaned and wiped his hand over his eyes, to quickly deny everything.

"I could kill her for telling you that! A lie, Catherine, all a he!"

"Was it a lie? It could have been mine, you know that. For God's sake, Chris doesn't know-he didn't lie to me too, did he?"

He sounded frantic as he denied everything, and sought once more to embrace me, but I jumped backward, and thrust forth both arms to ward him off. "There is a bottle in your office with a baby like that inside! I saw it! Paul, how could you? You, of all people, to save something like that!"

"No!" he flared immediately. "That thing was given to me years ago when I was in med school-a joke, really-med students play all sorts of jokes you'd find gruesome, and I'm telling you the truth, Catherine, you didn't abort." Then he stopped abruptly, just as I did, with my thoughts reefing. I'd betrayed myself!

I began to cry. Chris, Chris, there was a baby, there was a monster just like we feared.

"No," said Paul again and again, "it's not yours, and even if it were, it wouldn't make any difference to me. I know you and Chris love each other in a special way. I've always known it, and I do understand."

"Once," I whispered through my sobs, "only once on one terrible night."

"I'm sorry it was terrible."

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