Surprise Baby, Second Chance. Therese Beharrie

to tell him.

      ‘Would you give me a lift home?’ she asked breathlessly when she reached him. As she asked—as he nodded—a menacing boom sounded in the sky before rain began pouring down on them.

      ‘Here, get in,’ he said, starting towards the passenger’s side of the car. But she put a hand on his chest before he could make any progress, and he held his breath.

      Control. Steel.

      ‘No,’ she replied tiredly. She leaned back against his car, dropping her hand and lifting her head to the sky. ‘No, this is exactly what I need.’

      ‘To be drenched in rain?’

      She laughed huskily and need pierced him. ‘No. Just...a break.’

      ‘Hard day?’

      ‘Isn’t every day?’

      She glanced back at the hospital where her mother was staying overnight. His mother had a chemo session but she’d left the book she’d wanted to read at home. And since Rosa’s mother—Liana’s usual companion—had started a new course of treatment, she wasn’t in Liana’s session to keep her company.

      And because Liana knew Aaron would do anything to make what she was going through easier, she’d asked him to fetch her book.

      ‘But today was particularly hard,’ Rosa continued with a sigh. ‘I had to meet a deadline for a couple of designs. And my creativity hasn’t exactly been flowing over the last few months.’