The Touch of Love by The Touch of Love

Author:The Touch of Love [HP-1426, MB-3399] (epub)
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Melody wanted to go to Hawaii to meet Robin, but she hesitated to take the baby with her. Scott had had trouble with Robbie on the ferry. If the baby got seasick, he might well get airsick, too.

Scott. When would his name on her mind turn to something ordinary, instead of leaving her with this trembling emptiness?

Melody wanted to meet Robin in Hawaii, but could not accept the idea of leaving Robbie behind with Mrs. Winston. The housekeeper had not been very much of a mother substitute for Melody and Robin. Maybe Robbie was too small to notice, but he had already lost his mother. He needed stability.

But to tell Robin about Donna's death on the telephone-

The baby started screaming just before noon the day after Scott left. Melody realized that her concept of time was changing, that life was organized into before Scott came, when Scott was here, and after Scott left. He was the lover in her dreams, in her songs.

Jeff turned up just as Robbie started screaming.

You drive, she said as he walked through the door. To the hospital.

He looked startled, but recovered quickly. Yes, ma'am, he said and he got her there quickly.

A night in the hospital and she had Robbie back, but with the caution, He's got a hernia in his groin. It's slipped back into place now, but watch him. It may have to be operated on, but we'd like to wait until he's at least a month older.

Robin called the next night, the telephone ringing in the middle of the night. Melody stumbled downstairs to grab it before it woke the baby. Jeff, in the room that had been Scott's, slept through the noise.

Her twin's voice was vibrant over the miles. What is it? Don't tell me they've messed up on the dates for the recording studio.

You're in Hawaii? Why had she not practiced the words, ways to tell him? Do you know what time it is here? When did you get in? Donna's dead. The woman you loved is gone.

> Just now. He was laughing at her confusion, not repentant for interrupting her sleep. Just cleared customs now and got my cruising permit. What's up, Melody?

In the end she said it bluntly, because she knew no soft way. She blurted, Donna Alexander's dead.

Nothing. He did not say a word. She gripped the receiver, wished she could touch him, see him. How could she have broken the news to him so brutally.

Oh, God, he whispered. No. Please, no.

Robin, there's a baby. Your baby.

He did not hear. He whispered, Donna-

She remembered when they had been twelve years old and he had tried to keep a trapped squirrel in captivity. It had died. She remembered Robin's face, his eyes just before he stormed out of the house. He had been gone six days. Everyone had searched. Mrs. Winston. The police. Even Amanda and Charlie, called home from a night club engagement in France.

She gripped the receiver tighter. Robin? I-look, what city are you in? Where in Hawaii? What marina? I'll come there.

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