15. Happy Families
Each night the sunset was a slightly different colour. If it rained in Eden I never saw it. Perhaps it happened while I slept. I still needed almost as much sleep post-pregnancy as I did when I was pregnant. Was it possible that I was pregnant again? I didn’t have the insatiable hunger for food though, like I’d had with Gina — the other hunger I still had.
Every pregnancy is different.
“What time did you want to go and visit Uncle Drake?” I asked.
“Later, in the early hours of the morning. Sleep, Little Mother and I will knock on your door when it’s time.”
Gina kissed us both and left. Danny made to leave and I held his hand to stop him from rising.
“What’s wrong?” he asked.
“Is it possible,” I began. “Do you think …?”
“What, Helena?”
“Could I fall pregnant agai
