Never Leave Me by Margaret Pemberton

Author:Margaret Pemberton [Pemberton, Margaret]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pan Macmillan UK

Her father stared at her, appalled. ‘A baby? Meyer’s baby?’

‘Yes, Papa,’ she said gently, wishing that she could ease his distress. ‘Dr Auge says I’m at least three months pregnant.’

‘Dear Christ!’ He groped blindly for a chair. ‘What will you do when Dering returns? What can you possibly say to him?’

Her face was pale and resolute. ‘I shall tell him the truth, Papa. There is nothing else I can tell him.’

He raised his stricken face to hers. ‘The wedding was a month ago. I remember your mother telling me that Jean’s wife regularly gave birth after seven-month pregnancies.’

Her face tightened. She shook her head, her eyes clouding. ‘No, Papa,’ she said, knowing how deep was his anguish for him to suggest such a deception. ‘I would rather he left me than stay with me believing such a lie.’

‘He probably will, ma chére,’ her father said unsteadily. ‘Another man’s child. A German’s child! It is more than you can expect any man to tolerate.’

Anxiety sprang alive again, clutching at her heart. She didn’t want to lose Greg. She was already more than halfway in love with him. The thought of a future without him appalled her. ‘It will be all right,’ she said fiercely, rising to her feet to make some coffee. ‘Greg will understand. I know he will.’

Her father shook his head disbelievingly. She could have Dieter Meyer’s child, or she could have a new life in America with Greg Dering. He couldn’t see how she could possibly have both.

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