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me.’ He kisses me, taking my breath away.
    â€˜One of the many reasons.’ I gasp. ‘Anyway, come on, you need to get going and I don’t want to leave my daughter with your mum alone for another minute.’
    â€˜Go on.’ He sighs. ‘I can wait till tomorrow. You’re really going to get it tomorrow night, though, Leanna. I hope you’re ready for being fucked like a married woman.’
    â€˜I can’t wait.’ I gulp back the rising passion inside me. ‘I really can’t wait.’
    I reluctantly leave the bedroom and head downstairs once more. I walk into the living room and neither Joe’s mum nor her granddaughter are in there. I hear running water and walk into the kitchen to find Beverly running my daughter’s arms under the tap.
    â€˜What do you think you’re doing?’ I snap.
    â€˜Oh, Leanna, I was just washing off some of that sun lotion gunk. It was making Lucy’s skin look all shiny.’
    â€˜What? Give Lucy to me.’
    â€˜I’ve not finished … ’
    â€˜I don’t bloody care.’ I snatch Lucy from her arms and carry her over to the rack of tea towels. I use one to dry her off. She giggles.
    â€˜Now we’ll have to put some more lotion on, won’t we?’ I smile at her. ‘Don’t want you getting burned out there.’
    â€˜All that greasy stuff is going to ruin her complexion.’
    â€˜Oh, shut up, Beverly. She’s a baby, her skin needs protecting.’
    â€˜Don’t talk to me like that, you silly young girl. You and my son don’t know how to be parents.’
    â€˜I know exactly how to take care of my baby! And Joe is an amazing father to Lucy,’ I snap.
    â€˜He’s not her real dad, though.’
    â€˜Says who? He feeds her, cleans her, loves her and that makes him a real dad in my book.’
    Joe’s mum shrugs dismissively.
    â€˜Well, you have no room to talk!’ I’m in full flow now and no one is going to stop me. ‘You’ve well and truly screwed your son up.’
    â€˜Ha.’ She looks down her nose at me. ‘No, darling, he did that all himself.’
    â€˜No, no, you selfish cow, you did it. You ignored him, you passed him from pillar to post and all you succeeded in doing was teaching him money was more important than love. It’s taken him a long time to find out you were wrong.’
    â€˜Oh, you idiot, of course I am not wrong. Money makes the world go round.’
    â€˜No, Mom.’ Joe walks in and smiles at me. No, it doesn’t.’
    â€˜Pfft, I always knew you were stupid.’
    And that was the straw that broke the camel’s back. What decorum I had went out of the window.
    â€˜Hold her.’ I thrust Lucy into Joe’s arms. ‘And cover her ears.’
    â€˜Leanna, don’t …’
    I don’t listen to another word.
    â€˜Right, that’s bloody it now. You’ve insulted me, you’ve insulted my daughter and my husband-to-be. No one does that. You are stupid Beverly, you are so fucking stupid that you just don’t know when to shut that huge, flapping trap of yours. You are lonely, you are bitter, and you are completely incapable of civil interaction. I pity you, you wicked witch, because after tomorrow you will never see your son or your granddaughter again. You’ll grow even older, the wrinkles of bitterness will be etched on your brow and you will die alone, completely alone. Your stupid money won’t care for you in your old age, wipe your chin when you dribble or comfort you when you realise the futility of your last days on earth. You will know then on your deathbed that you were wrong and you’ll wish you’d treated us better.’
    For a moment we are all silent and then her hand whips out and connects with my cheek.
    â€˜Don’t you dare.’ Joe darts out a hand and stills his mother’s. In doing so he knocks the dining