Chapter 30
“I can’t believe this,” Aroha sobbed. “How could I make this mistake again?” She clutched her stomach and bent herself double in the armchair. “I’m so stupid.”
“Don’t say that,” Hana soothed. “It’s not good for the baby to get so upset.” Poor Aroha continued to cry. Michael had portrayed himself as the debonair doctor and then descended into the egotistical male stereotype and his girlfriend reeled from the shock. “I thought he was different to Kane,” she howled. “But they’re all the bloody same!”
“No, they aren’t,” Hana asserted, rocking the pram to keep Phoenix asleep. “Logan isn’t.”
“He was going to hit Logan!” Aroha sniffed. “That wasn’t just inappropriate, it was unfair!”
Hana watched the distraught woman rock herself and mustered the energy to behave with compassion.
