THIRTY-THREE
Mandy answered the door to Jimbo and Father Mike. She was expecting them and was thankful Jimbo would be staying over. Mike was doing Midnight Mass at the Cathedral and she’d hoped to go with Jack, but that looked unlikely, though the bonus was that Liz and Carly were home with the baby, and together, they would go to Mass.
‘Mike…?’ Her eyes were pleading.
Mike responded with an arm around her shoulders. ‘He will be okay, is that what you were worried about?’ She nodded. ‘And you'd like me to bless the baby?’ She nodded again, tears close, but held herself in check to answer the door again. It was Fatso and Maisie this time, making social rounds and saying they hoped to meet Mandy and Jack at the cathedral later. They had a cuddly knitted Sea Bass for the baby, and told Man
