Chapter 87

"Are you ready?" Jake asks me before glancing down and repeating the same to Ruby. He's stood in the upstairs corridor, in front of Ruby's nursery door. My heart is fluttering with nerves and I'm crossing my fingers on both hands for luck. Jake is holding Ruby's car seat and she's being good as gold, happily tucked away in her pink blanket. The rest of the family decide to stay downstairs to give Jake, Ruby and I a moment. "I'm ready. No, wait! I don't think I am." I respond, nerves taking...