Playdate by Alex Dahl

Author:Alex Dahl [Dahl, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Head of Zeus

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It’s late when she gets the girls to sleep. They insisted on a sleepover, building a makeshift bed with blankets and pillows in the tent in Josiane’s room, and they eventually fall asleep in there after hours of excited chatter about Boulette, their newly long legs poking out from the tent flap. Jacqueline checks on them on her way to bed and stands a moment looking at their protruding bare feet, white and impossibly fragile in the cool light of the moon. Four little feet, just the way it was meant to be.

She remembers the first ultrasound of her pregnancy, when four little feet appeared beneath the sonographer’s wand, wriggling the smallest of toes, treading water, kicking. ‘How will we manage?’ she whispered, turning to Nico, who was staring at the grainy screen, transfixed. Then he laughed and squeezed her hand.

She falls asleep quickly for once, jostled into unconsciousness by swirling thoughts dragging her one way and then another, like small but strong waves. Her last conscious thoughts are of the moments she spent in the kitchen with Antoine, how there was something so intensely familiar about him and at the same time so seductively new, like a house you just know is meant to be your home. He is there tonight, in her dreams, looking at her as though she is something wonderful.

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