She Has My Child: A totally heart-wrenching and emotional family drama by Emma Robinson

Author:Emma Robinson [Robinson, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2024-03-26T00:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-TWO

SOPHIA

Considering that all Sophia did all day was feed, change and care for Millie, it was amazing how quickly the hours disappeared. Partly, it was due to the fog of exhaustion: continual broken sleep wasn’t fun, it had to be said. Even so, there was something magical about being alone with Millie in the early hours of the morning. Sometimes, while she was feeding her, she’d open the window blinds and look out on the silence and darkness tucked around the town. It was as if they were the only people awake in the world. Then, once she’d placed her gently back into her crib, she’d watch her little chest rise and fall, marvelling at how a body as tiny as that could contain all the organs that made it work. During the day, she could spend an hour at a time just watching Millie in her arms, the way her nose twitched in her sleep was positively hypnotic.

Before Millie was born, she’d spotted a soft yellow scrapbook in a local stationer and planned to create a baby book for Megan. At the time, she could never have guessed that Megan wouldn’t have been here to see Millie for herself. When Richard was out, she’d used his printer to print the photographs she’d taken on her phone and, with Millie asleep on the rug beside her, she had them spread around her. Each one so perfect, it was difficult to choose.

At a week old, Millie had changed immeasurably. Gone was the scrunched up red bundle and, in her place, a porcelain doll with cornflower eyes and dark hair. Each time she FaceTimed Megan – usually about three times a day – there was a change in her. She was opening her eyes wider, grasping onto things more tightly, focusing her attention for longer. That morning, she would have sworn in court that she was trying to hold up her head. It was a tightrope talking to Megan about these things. A fine line between making sure she didn’t miss out and drawing her attention to the fact that that was exactly what was happening.

‘She really seems to be looking at me.’ There was so much hope in Megan’s voice that she went with it.

‘I think she is. Talk to her.’

‘Hey, baby. It’s Mummy here. I miss you so much and I can’t wait to see you. Are you having fun with Auntie Sophia?’

Auntie Sophia. It conjured up memories of their own kind but distant Auntie Marie who lived in Cornwall. Nothing like the connections she had with Millie. Sophia snipped at the coloured paper she’d bought to back the photographs. Yellow – Megan’s favourite colour – to match the book, purple for contrast. This was the first creative project she’d started in a while: it was fun. Not quite the kind of project she would’ve done as part of a fine art degree, but a way to utilise her artistic skills a little. One of the photographs she’d printed from her phone was of her holding Millie minutes after she was born.

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