Will You Love Me?: The story of my adopted daughter Lucy: Part 3 of 3. Cathy Glass
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      Also by Cathy Glass

      Damaged

      Hidden

      Cut

      The Saddest Girl in the World

      Happy Kids

      The Girl in the Mirror

      I Miss Mummy

      Mummy Told Me Not to Tell

      My Dad’s a Policeman (a Quick Reads novel)

      Run, Mummy, Run

      The Night the Angels Came

      Happy Adults

      A Baby’s Cry

      Happy Mealtimes For Kids

      Another Forgotten Child

      Please Don’t Take My Baby

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Also by Cathy Glass

       Acknowledgements

       Epigraph

       17 Progress

       18 ‘I’d Rather Have You’

       19 Happy Holiday

       20 ‘Will You Love Me?’

       21 ‘No One Wants Me’

       22 A New Year, a New Social Worker

       23 ‘She’s OK for a Girl’

       24 Special Day

       25 Thunderstorm

       26 ‘I’ll Try My Best’

       27 Special Love

       Exclusive sample chapter

       Cathy Glass

       Copyright

       About the Publisher

      A big thank-you to my editor, Holly; my literary agent Andrew; and Carole, Vicky, Laura and all the team at HarperCollins.

      ‘Every time I hear a newborn baby cry …

      Then I know why,

      I believe.’

      ‘I Believe’ by Ervin Drake

       Progress

      ‘I wouldn’t ask but we’re desperate,’ Jill said. ‘I know we agreed you’d wait until Lucy had been with you for longer and had calmed down before you fostered another child, but Lucy’s taking her time to calm down, and none of our other carers are free. It would only be for two weeks’ respite and David’s very sweet. It’s just while his mother is in hospital.’

      ‘I really don’t know, Jill,’ I said again, wishing she hadn’t asked. Although I had the space in my house to foster another child, I had my hands full with Lucy, and David was sure to be upset at being separated from his mother. ‘Will I have to take him to visit his mother in hospital as well?’ I asked, feeling this would be impossible with everything else that was going on.

      ‘No, his aunt will take him,’ Jill said. ‘She can’t look after him during the day because she works full time, but she can take him to the hospital in the evenings and at the weekend. David won’t give you any trouble,’ Jill added. ‘And we’d be very grateful.’

      ‘When do you need to know by?’ I asked.

      ‘Now, please. His mother would need to bring him to you tomorrow morning, before she goes into hospital.’

      ‘And there really is no one else?’

      ‘No.’

      ‘All right, I’ll do it,’ I said. ‘Although I have big reservations.’

      ‘You’ll be fine,’ Jill said, with a confidence I didn’t feel. ‘And you never know, it might do Lucy some good. Give her someone else to focus on for a change, rather than herself.’ Although Jill was highly sympathetic to Lucy, as I was, I think she was starting to lose patience and felt that maybe Lucy was revelling in all the attention her outbursts evoked. ‘Thanks, Cathy.’

      We said goodbye and I went straight upstairs to the spare bedroom and made up the bed with a fresh duvet СКАЧАТЬ