Promise Of A Family

He did not seem convinced. ‘But she has been to Australia?’ he pressed.

‘Max has never been to Australia,’ Leyne told him bluntly. ‘It may be on their itinerary before she comes home, hopefully in time for Pip’s next birthday, but it will be Max’s first visit there.’

He shrugged, but accepted what she said. ‘I must have been thinking of someone else.’

‘No doubt,’ Leyne replied. She would not be at all surprised if he had many ex-women-friends in all corners of the globe.

‘Well, I have to tell you, Miss Rowberry—’ he began, and looked so serious that she stared at him from her wide blue eyes, expecting some quite shattering announcement. But as he stared back—his eyes on her eyes and on the earnest look of her—he checked. And, after a moment when—ridiculously, she later thought—time seemed suspended, he merely added, ‘That I—hmm—would like to take up your offer of coffee after all.’

Leyne went to the kitchen and could not help feeling a little let down. Though quite what she had been expecting him to say she wasn’t sure. He seemed determined not to acknowledge Pip as his—and Leyne was not at all certain what she could do about that.

She returned to the sitting room with a tray of coffee, knowing that for her niece’s sake, and no other, she must be equally determined.

‘Oh, if only Max had not lost her cellphone.’ She mumbled her thoughts out loud as she handed him his coffee and took her coffee back to the chair she had been seated in a short while ago.

‘Cellphone?’ Jack enquired politely.

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