The Flirt
“I won’t attempt to describe it, but suffice to say, it’s one of the great moments that life has to offer—a brief reprieve when all is well with the world, when mother and baby are safe, when relief and triumph mingle in a way that occurs all too rarely.
The curtains were drawn around the bed but they didn’t block out the noise of the other women and babies on the ward or the smell of the curry that the Indian woman’s mother had brought to her exhausted daughter in the bed next to Amy’s.
Still, ...Jonathan was oblivious. In fact it wasn’t until he looked up, beaming with ridiculous paternal pride at his “achievement,” that he noticed Amy was unusually subdued. She was still in a way that was entirely separate from the Hallmark moment he was experiencing, and it frightened him. So he said what he always said when he didn’t know what to say.
“I love you, darling.”
“Is that so, Johnny?”
She hardly ever called him Johnny. It was a term of endearment that harked back to another life they’d shared, before the division of domestic labor forced them onto more formal terms.MoreLess
The curtains were drawn around the bed but they didn’t block out the noise of the other women and babies on the ward or the smell of the curry that the Indian woman’s mother had brought to her exhausted daughter in the bed next to Amy’s.
Still, ...Jonathan was oblivious. In fact it wasn’t until he looked up, beaming with ridiculous paternal pride at his “achievement,” that he noticed Amy was unusually subdued. She was still in a way that was entirely separate from the Hallmark moment he was experiencing, and it frightened him. So he said what he always said when he didn’t know what to say.
“I love you, darling.”
“Is that so, Johnny?”
She hardly ever called him Johnny. It was a term of endearment that harked back to another life they’d shared, before the division of domestic labor forced them onto more formal terms.MoreLess
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