The Baby They Longed For by Marion Lennox

Author:Marion Lennox
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-11-05T15:50:47+00:00

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He walked home along the cliff path, his hands deep in his pockets, his thoughts back in the little house he’d just left. He’d left his car at the hospital because it was a five-minute walk via the fish shop and he’d needed to walk. He needed a walk even more now. He took the long route around the headland, a thirty-minute hike, and even that wasn’t long enough to get his head together.

What had just happened?

It hadn’t just happened, though, he thought. It had happened last night, when he’d taken Addie into his bed, into her bed. And she’d taken him. The sex had been mind-blowing, the release of years of frustration, anger, need. The release of years of...caring?

But now the caring was right back with him. His concern for her...

She probably wasn’t pregnant but if she was, she’d made her decision. And he’d made his.

She...they...wanted a baby.

He paused and stared out over the blackness of the ocean. The moon created a sliver of silver over the waves but the water still looked dark, empty, threatening.

His baby.

Addie.

‘You’re talking of something that won’t happen,’ he told himself, but that sounded wrong, too.

And yet...it was probably right. He’d done a statistics unit once to help with research he was undertaking. He understood odds.

The odds said he was out here talking to himself about something that would never happen.

But if it did...

‘Then you’ll cope with it,’ he said, still aloud. But then...she’d already made a declaration that she wouldn’t need him.

Would he be sidelined again in a child’s life?

She’d sworn that he wouldn’t, and somehow he believed her.

So...did he want her to be pregnant? Wasn’t his life complicated enough?

‘Yes, it is. So why take the pill home with you?’

Because she wants a baby, he argued within himself.

‘Do you? Are you trying to replace Sophie?’

The thought made his gut clench and he knew it wasn’t true. Sophie was irreplaceable and always would be.

‘You’re being dumb,’ he said, still out loud. ‘Let’s not dramatise something that won’t happen. This is not a worry.’

He moved on, but as he did so he thought it wasn’t exactly worry.

It was more like...hope?

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