Chapter 176

“Hey Barry, it’s Becky. Abby is with me at ballet class. Please call me when you get this message and arrange to come and pick her up.” “So, you’re Abby’s mum?” one of the women asked. Becky shook her head. “No,” she said with a smile, “I’m her nanny.” Becky was used to the looks she usually got with that statement. Other mothers didn’t seem to trust her or think that she was in their league because she got paid to look after a child. What they didn’t understand was that she was more of a mother to Abby than her own mother was. Which made it even more heartbreaking that she’d had to leave. It seemed wrong that Heather could just walk in and take away Becky’s life, but the fact was, she was just a paid employee. It didn’t matter that she was the one who had gotten up to her at night, had soothed her fevers, and nursed her through vomiting bugs. It didn’t matter that she had been the one to see her take her first steps and utter her first words. And nobody seemed to care that she loved A