Remember Me by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-01-04T20:46:52+00:00

Chapter 48

Menley’s frantic search of the downstairs rooms had not revealed where Bobby’s voice was coming from. Finally Hannah’s wails had penetrated her consciousness, and she had made her way back to the nursery. By then Hannah’s sobs had become gulping hiccups.

“Oh, sweet baby,” Menley had murmured, shocked into awareness that Hannah had been crying for a long time. She had picked up her daughter, wrapped the covers around her and dropped onto the bed opposite the crib.

Crawling under the quilt, she had slid her shoulder strap down and put the baby’s lips to her breast. She had not been able to nurse, but her breast pulsated as the tiny lips sucked at her nipple. Finally the hiccups had subsided, and Hannah had slept contentedly in her arms.

She wanted to keep the baby with her, but exhaustion was a cloud that pushed Menley into a stuporlike state. As she had done a few days ago, she placed a pillow in the cradle, laid Hannah on it, tucked the blankets around her, and fell into a dead sleep herself, her hand on the cradle, one tiny finger encircling her thumb.

*** The ringing of the phone woke her at eight o’clock. Hannah was still asleep, she noted, as she rushed to the master bedroom to answer it.

It was Adam.

“Don’t tell me you and Hannah are still in bed? How come she never sleeps late for me?” He was joking. Menley knew it. The tone of his voice was amused and affectionate. Then why was she so quick to look for a double meaning in everything he said?

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