“No, darling, you weren’t… At least, you were probably the size of a pea and neither of knew you were there. My Gosh, though, you have thought about this, haven’t you, darling?”
“It’s important, Mum,” she replied wiping a stray tear from her eye with a finger. “I have the choice now of giving Shell at least as good a childhood as I had or risk putting her through a lot of grief… and at the moment, staying with Mike or leaving Shell with a nanny in Bangkok, look like a road to grief.
“Unfortunately.”
They both stood up and hugged, lost in thought about the time when Soom was the size of a pea and Lek and her husband were fighting like cat and dog. This was the closest she had ever come to asking her mother about what had happened in those days, but it was not the first time that Lek was
