Chapter 35
Clare had been back in Brisbane for two weeks, and it was finally the day of Jack’s pre-hearing assessment with the court psychologist. She was a bag of nerves. For the first time her dubious, self-taught parenting abilities would be clinically assessed. Not only that, she’d be seeing Taylor for the first time since the young woman’s visit to Currawong.
Clare took a deep breath, then knelt down on the floor to extract Samson from the chewed-up-land under the bed. She grasped his collar and dragged him out. Damn, she’d caught her skirt on something and brought the hem down. She tied the dog to the table leg and quickly pinned it up. Next job was to extract Jack from under the battered couch. Ouch … she’d kneeled on the pin. Biting her lip, Clare reached under and tried to grab
