It was nearing a suitable time to go to bed and as she was pregnant, she thought it more than fair if she headed there a little earlier. It had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that she didn’t want a confrontation with her parents. Surprisingly they’d made no mention of her news once she and Matt had returned to the house. At first her soon-to-be-bulging stomach was like the elephant in the corner of the room no one wanted to talk about, but being in Matt’s presence relaxed her so much that soon she forgot the tension. The free-flowing alcohol got her mother tipsy fast and she didn’t seem inclined to raise the baby issue over lunch. Hannah had held her breath for a few moments when everyone gathered in the lounge room after their late lunch, collapsing with full stomachs onto sofas just in time to watch the queen’s Christmas speech, but no one mentioned her baby then either. She’d always loved Christmas with her family but had been dreading it a bit this year, yet Matt had made it more than bearable.
