A Forever Family: Their Christmas Delivery. Kate Hardy

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       CHAPTER ONE

      Friday 24th December

      ‘HELLO? HELLO?’

      There was no answer. It was probably a courier in the middle of a super-frantic shift, Amy thought, needing to deliver as many parcels as humanly possible on Christmas Eve and pressing every single button on the intercom in the hope of finding someone who’d buzz the front door open so they could leave a parcel in the lobby. The silence probably meant they’d stopped waiting for her to answer and were already trying someone else.

      She was about to replace the receiver on her intercom system when she heard a noise.

      It sounded like a baby crying.

      Was it her imagination? Or maybe the courier was listening to something on the radio. An ad, perhaps.

      She knew that she was being ridiculous, but something made Amy go out of her own front door and into the main lobby, just to check that everything was all right.

      And there, in the corner by the front door, was a cardboard box.

      Except she could still hear a baby crying, and this time she was pretty sure it wasn’t on a radio.

      When she drew closer, she could see that the cardboard box wasn’t a parcel at all. The top of the box was open. Inside, wrapped in a soft blanket, was a baby. There were traces of blood on the baby’s face and Amy had a moment of panic; but then she thought that the blood might be because the baby was very, very young.

      Young enough to be a newborn.

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