Chapter Four
Amber didn’t tell Mandy of her discovery of Murphy’s paternity. Mandy, for the moment, was just pleased that they looked like a proper family. It wasn’t easy to go back into the swing of things, though. They would have Murphy in bed by eight, then do schoolwork for three hours, then go to bed, on the weeknights. On weekends and minor holidays, Amber and Mandy would order in, and maybe watch a movie. That is, is Murphy wasn’t very hungry, or very wet.
It annoyed Amber that she was stuck taking care of Ben’s baby. She didn’t even know if he knew that Mandy had been pregnant with his baby. Those three weeks in the hospital, only a week and a half for Mandy, constantly came back to her. She’d given the midwife the onesie, and kept a tight hold on the jewelry box containing the e
