The Doctor's Pregnancy Surprise

He shook his head. ‘She wouldn’t have done that.’

Holly took a swig of coffee. ‘Wake up, will you? Your mum hated me. She’d have done anything to keep us apart. Did she tell you that I came round?’

‘Well, no,’ he admitted.

‘She wanted to make sure I stayed away from you.’

He frowned. ‘As far as she was concerned, you’d dumped me. You broke my heart, Hol. She was probably trying to protect me and make sure you didn’t hurt me again.’

She laughed mirthlessly. ‘Your loyalty’s commendable. It’s just a shame you didn’t show the same loyalty to me when I needed it.’

‘That’s unfair. I didn’t know about the baby.’

‘And your mother was wrong. I didn’t dump you. Of course I bloody didn’t! I rang you to tell you I’d done a pregnancy test.’

‘I didn’t get the message.’

‘I spoke to your mother. I didn’t tell her what the problem was—I wasn’t that stupid—just that I needed to talk to you. But she said you were out.’

He shrugged. ‘I probably was.’

‘So why didn’t you ring me back?’

‘Because I didn’t get the message.’

‘Deliberately.’

‘It might have slipped her mind.’

She shook her head. ‘No way.’

He sighed. ‘If, and I mean if it was deliberate, she did it with the best of intentions. What about your mother? She said you were in but you just didn’t want to talk to me. Her exact words were that you couldn’t be bothered with me.’

Holly scoffed. ‘She knew I loved you. She knew about the baby. What reason would she have to lie to you?’