Finding Out – Lindsay Armstrong

Instead, it stopped crying at the sound of Lineesa’s voice and the feel of her arms and turned its downy little head to her breasts with urgent sucking movements of its rosebud mouth. ‘Oh dear,’ Lineesa whispered. ‘No, sweetheart, I’m afraid I can’t help you …’ She broke off at a sound and looked up to see David standing in the doorway with an arrested look on his face.

‘Christ,’ he said at last. ‘I didn’t know they had any kids!’ ‘I don’t think they’ve had this one for long,’ she said. ‘It’s very little.’ She held the baby out for his inspection. He eyed it. ‘It is that. How old do you think it is? I haven’t had much experience of babies—other than Bronwen’s and I don’t have much to do with them until they start to walk and talk.’ He grimaced faintly. She hesitated. ‘I haven’t had much experience either except by …

correspondence course you could say.’ He raised his eyebrows. ‘What do you mean?’ ‘Well, I did a mothercraft course at school. It was compulsory but we didn’t ever have the real thing to work on … I’d say not more than two months probably. And very hungry,’ she added as the baby began to cry again. ‘Which could be a bit of a problem! There, there, honey,’ she crooned and cuddled the baby again, only to have it do exactly as it had done before with a heart-breaking eagerness.

She lifted her eyes to David’s and felt a faint heat come to her cheeks at the wryly amused look she saw in them. ‘See what I mean?’ she said a little defiantly. ‘Yes, I do,’ he murmured. ‘A problem indeed. But there could be .. .’ ‘A bottle!’ She said the word at the same time he did.

‘Of course … at least I hope so. And something to put in it.’ ‘Right. Let’s look. Is there nothing you can do to stop it crying in the meantime?’ he queried with a faint smile. ‘I’ll change it. It’s also very wet. That might help. If you’d like to start looking …’ ‘Yes, ma’am,’ he said, and left her. But a dry nappy did not appease the baby for very long, nor did there appear to be anything resembling an infant’s feeding bottle on the premises.

Would they ever have a happy anniversary? David Marchmont had forced the beautiful Lineesa Creighton, Australia’s top model, to marry him a year ago—as restitution for the death of his younger brother. Lineesa had suffered her own guilt over that tragedy. The added punishment of being caught in a loveless marriage was almost too much to bear. Although Lineesa should have hated David, she found she couldn’t.

But with so much guilt and misunderstanding between them there seemed scant hope for a happy marriage. And yet, deep down, Lineesa was sure David wanted one. OceanofPDF.com CHAPTER ONE LINEESA Marchmont stretched and yawned and viewed the sunlight pouring through her bedroom window with narrowed eyes. There was something about this bright new shining day that was faintly menacing. But she couldn’t immediately recall what lay on her soul like a dark cloud that was quite contrary in spirit to the sunlight that lay in a bar across the end of her bed.

Then it hit her like the kick of a rifle. It was her wedding anniversary, her first wedding anniversary. ‘Oh hell,” she muttered and twisted restlessly in the wide bed. The bedroom was large and beautifully decorated with apricot wallpaper, voluminous ivory Thai-silk drapes, a close-pile apricot carpet that felt like velvet, some magnificent pieces of very old cedar furniture with brass fittings and.

two pale, sherbet-green upholstered arm-chairs set in front of a fireplace. It was in fact the master bedroom at Marchmont where apricot had been someone’s favourite colour for the outside walls of the two-storied house were a soft, mellow, apricot stucco, the colour you find on gum trees when they’ve shed their bark; and all the windows were framed by green, louvered shutters, the colour of gum leaves.

But it was an effective colour scheme for a house set largely in a bush setting—it blended well, Lineesa often thought. She pushed aside the bedclothes reluctantly but didn’t get up straight away. It was as if the act of getting up would set the seal of inevitability on this day. Then she chided herself for being fanciful and slid off the bed.

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