This Could Change Everything by Jill Mansell (Retail)

Author:Jill Mansell (Retail) [Mansell, Jill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2018-03-09T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Six

The next morning, Lucas was up early again. Giselle had stayed over, and he left her dozing in bed once more in order to supervise the day’s deliveries.

Once everything was sorted downstairs, he took her up a coffee. “Want me to make you a bacon sandwich?”

Giselle shook her head. “No thanks. Not hungry.”

Five minutes later, he said, “Aren’t you going to drink that coffee?”

She thought about it. “You know, I don’t really fancy coffee just now. It tastes a bit weird.”

That was the moment Lucas knew for sure. He also realized that Giselle didn’t know.

“You’re looking a bit pale,” he said, although this wasn’t true. “Are you feeling OK?”

“Oh, there’s a bit of a bug going around at work.” Giselle pulled a face. “A couple of people were off sick yesterday. It’s OK. I’ll be fine.”

Lucas mentally braced himself; time felt as if it were slowing down. He could have asked her yesterday but had held off, keeping the question to himself until he was sure.

Now he said, “There was a splash of coffee on the side of the sink in the bathroom yesterday. Did you pour out the one I made for you before I left?”

Giselle laughed out loud. “Ha, caught. Well done, Sherlock Holmes! But it’s that new kind you’ve started using. I told you, it tastes weird.”

It was the exact same coffee he’d always bought. And still she had absolutely no idea. Lucas said, “You didn’t eat your bacon sandwich either.”

This time she blushed. “How do you know that?”

He indicated the window. “I looked out and saw it on the roof over there.”

“Oh, I’m sorry!” Shamefaced and laughing again, Giselle said, “I just didn’t feel like eating it, but you’d gone to so much trouble and I couldn’t think how else to get rid of it. Except the plan was to throw it into the yard below. I couldn’t believe I managed to get it stuck on that stupid roof! I just prayed a bird would fly down and make off with the whole thing before you came back and spotted it.”

“Hey, don’t worry. Not a problem.” Lucas smiled briefly, while inside, his heart began to race. “I just wondered why you’d done it. Bacon sandwiches are your favorite.”

Giselle spread her hands. “I know, I couldn’t understand it either! But then I heard about the bug going around, so I realized it must be that.”

She was a fully qualified, state-registered nurse, yet it genuinely hadn’t occurred to her. Lucas sat down on the side of the bed and reached for her hand. “Look, I don’t want to scare you, but do you think there could be another reason?”

Giselle stared at him. Then she froze in disbelief, and this time he saw the color physically drain from her already pale face. For a moment, as her hand went to her mouth, he thought she might actually be about to throw up.

“Oh my God…”

“Is your period late?”

“I don’t know.” And now she was flushing, her breathing fast and ragged.

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