Friday's Child by Clare Revell

Author:Clare Revell [Revell, Clare]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: christian Fiction
ISBN: Friday's Child
Publisher: Pelican Ventures Book Group
Published: 2013-09-27T04:00:00+00:00

14

Eleanor sat for an hour after Patrick left, her body numb and her mind in turmoil. Of all the ways she thought he’d react, walking out on her wasn’t one of them. Although she deserved nothing less.

She took hold of Abbie’s hand, gently stroking it. “Wish I knew what to do, squirt. I hoped he’d understand. Guess I was wrong. I’d hoped that one day things would be different. Past few days with him around, seeing him with you, I’d even hoped he could be part of our lives, but I well and truly put paid to that one. What do I do?”

“Hi, Eleanor. Can I be of any help?”

She looked up into the smiling face of Pastor Jack. “Oh, hello, Pastor.”

He sat down beside her. “I heard about your mum. I’m really sorry.”

“Thank you.”

“I was going to come and see you today, about organizing the funeral, but I guess you want to leave it for a couple of days.”

She nodded. “If you don’t mind, yeah. How did you find out about Abbie?”

“Patrick rang me. How is she?”

Tears filled her eyes and a fresh cramp of pain squeezed her heart. “She’s dying. She broke her arm in the crash and started vomiting blood this morning. They found a tumor on her liver and if she doesn’t get a transplant, she’ll die. The thing is, we’ve been…I’ve been living a lie the past thirteen, almost fourteen years, and now I’ve told Patrick the truth he’s run out on me. I’m not a match and he could be because she—”

“Slow down,” Pastor Jack said. “They found a tumor?”

“Yeah, when they did scans to find out why she was throwing up blood. There’s a huge mass on her liver.”

“Is the lump cancer?”

“No. Which, although I’m thankful for, it’s still killing her.” She took a deep breath. “The other thing is, I haven’t been honest with you or with anyone. I’m Abbie’s mum, not her sister. It’s a long story, but Mum was ashamed of what I did, and insisted on bringing Abbie up as her own.”

He nodded. “I see. Did you argue the point with her? Try to insist she was your daughter and you’d bring her up?”

“You don’t argue with mum…didn’t argue with her. She said I would be Abbie’s sister, nothing more. It was a better option than having her adopted. This way I got to see her every day.”

“Who’s her father?”

Right on cue Patrick walked in and answered the question without a pause. “I am.” He looked at her. “I’ve had the blood tests done. The doctor said he’s going to rush the results.”

“Thank you.”

He looked past her. “Pastor Jack. Thanks for coming over.”

“Thanks for the call. I was about to suggest that Eleanor and I go and get something to drink. It might be an idea if you joined us.”

Eleanor looked at him. “Pastor…”

Patrick spoke over her. “If this is about what I think it is, then it affects us both.” He looked at Shay as they left the room.

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