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‘Pregnant, then?’

Lisa couldn’t answer and rested her forehead against the cool of the glass as the nausea she’d just thought she was avoiding caeance

‘So, you are pregnant’ Her hteousness echoed out of the phone

‘I haven’t even answered you’ Lisa defended herself just as she’d always had to do when her mother was in one of theseshe’d wanted or worked for Well, it wasn’t going to happen this ti a secret fro and hope that satisfied her

‘Your silence says it all, darling’ The endear Lisa of the wicked witches in the children’s filer She’d never thought her own h

‘Yes, I’ot what you have never had, Mother, or should I say what you’ve never respected yourself enough to hang around for’

‘So you still think a ive you all those foolish dreams of happy ever afters, like those silly films you used to watch?’ Lisa blinked in shock Her mother had noticed that she had always been consuh, soof well-known troublemakers

‘I love Max and that’s enough for me I’m not the same as you’ Behind her she heard a noise and turned, phone held to her ear, and looked at Max She saw his ar from the place she’d finally made hi had he been standing there and how much had he heard?

She watched Max walk away, heard her mother’s voice ‘Then I shall leave you to make the most of your love nest, because it won’t last’

‘Goodbye, Mother’ Lisa ended the call and dropped the phone onto the s noise an oo after him, wanted to find out what he’d heard, because a one-sided conversation would have sounded pretty da as, only last night, she’d confessed her mother was

She alking after hi it and stood once more on the threshold of his domain

‘Save it, Lisa’ He glared at her and she knew he’d heard it all ‘I’m not in the mood’

‘No, Max, I won’t’