Chapter 31
Jayden was woken early the next morning by Dad. He stuck his unshaven face around the door and beckoned, disappearing back into the hall the minute Jayden touched a foot to the floor.
It was half past six, and the car was running. Mum was nowhere to be seen, and Jayden padded downstairs to find Dad hefting a bag off the sofa. “Livvy’s gone into labour,” he said briskly. “We’re off. I might be back this evening, or might wait it out, see how it goes. You know where the food is. You can use my account with Habib’s to order tonight only, and don’t go overboard.”
“‘Kay,” Jayden said, scrubbing sleep out of his eyes and peering through the curtain. Mum was sitting in the car, looking perfectly calm—much calmer than Dad, anyway. “Good luck,” he added as a bit of an afterthought, an
