Chapter 70

Gray light fingered the ceiling. Fury stared at it for several seconds. Then closed her eyes. She'd thought she understood need. Had experienced it as a driving force in her life. How ignorant was she though when the needs were so simple? Cotton sheets. A fresh nightdress. No rolling waves.

When she thought about that nightmare of screaming midwifery, of Flint holding her to the end, she shuddered. Even now she remembered his voice piercing what had remained of her consciousness. The terrible grimness of his face. Thank Godthose in the party who arrived at the beach had been kind to him. Her last conscious thought was that he deserved it.

She'd have died without him. Fortune too.

Who would ever have thought Flint could take care of a baby? Her lips twitched. All right, brandy soaked rags were not ideal, for heaven's sake. And, as she'd suspected, he wasn't any good at some of the other things. Susan did the washing and changing.