Chapter 66

• Was it just the unfamiliar voice, or would she be completely fooling herself to think that the baby recognised her somehow? Sofia’s heart clenched sharply as the little boy’s big dark eyes opened wide to stare into her face, his wails and his whole body stilling as she lifted him so carefully.
• ‘That’s better, isn’t it?’
• She prayed that he wouldn’t feel the way she was trembling all over. That the twisting of her nerves wouldn’t communicate itself to him and upset him all over again. She also hoped that Alessandro wouldn’t see the fear in her eyes, the determined effort she was making to hide the way she was feeling and misinterpret it as something else.