Yorkshire Lady

Yorkshire lady Chapter 29

A long chapter...

I should  mention that   the Journalist I have sniffing round   owes all to my imagination and reading   about Rita Skeeter in Harry Potter and not to any real journalist.

Enough waffle.......

For a  man who had considerable experience of the paparazzi,    Andy  had not handled the incident of his children's photograph very well.      Thoughtlessly and immaturely were two ways to describe it.

He and Rebecca had deliberately stuck 2 metaphorical fingers up at Caroline   and her 'demands'    and now Andy was  regretting it.

It was well known   amongst his  'pet paparazzi'  ( with whom he had a game of   'you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours' on going)  that his 2 boys were not  Rebecca's .

    They would have  loved to have known the details .     Had their mother been a one night stand,   a long term girlfriend,  a wife ?    Andy  gave them lots of   photo and story opportunities  and not prying into  his boys lives was part of the deal.

He'd realised all too late that  he might have  awakened interest in his past from paparazzi who were  not under any promise to him....................And he was right.

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Tanya  Winterton the most glamorous and unscrupulous gossip columnist on The Bugle ( the worst of the tabloids)  was on the train up to Halifax.   She touched up her make up  aware of the admiring glances she was getting from surrounding businessmen.

Tanya had a friend Libby who worked for  Hello !   She'd been covering Andy Lawton's wedding  and had  met Tanya for lunch  in a mixture of excitement  and frustration.

'I could  scream' !   She groaned.    'I picked up so  much gossip  when the champagne had been flowing  and I can't use any of it..........'.

'Nothing to stop me though is there'.   Tanya's mouth watered.    'What have you heard about  the Bride and Groom then ?'

There was nothing concrete of course  but that was how  Tanya liked it.    She loved being able to  dig and ferret out juicy and potentially lucrative details.   

 What  excited he the most was the speculation about  the mother of Andy's boys.  Libby hadn't been able ask much without it arousing suspicion.   But the 'on dit' was  that she was an ex wife.   Had the new Mrs Lawton been a 'bit on the side'   perhaps ?................................

So now  Tanya was on her way to Yorkshire  to the village of  Sparthwaite  where Andy had a house  to see what details could be got from the locals.

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John sat in the driving seat of the car in a state of awe filled amazement  Freddy and Charlie were uncharacteristically quiet and wide eyed in the back.    Only Caroline  was  serenely unperturbed , although filled with  joy at the miracle she'd just seen.

In her bag along with her pregnancy notes was  her first scan picture  ready to go onto the computer disc along with those of  Freddy and Charlie.

Freddie had been with his mother to her  scans while carrying Charlie.    But as a 2 year old he'd been unable to link the wriggling pulsating blob on the screen  with the new person  Mummy said would be coming in a few months.

This time both boys along with their step father  had been able to   comprehend the wonder of it all.   

John had them both sitting on his knees while the sonographer    pointed out the head,   arms, legs and beating heart.        ' If you come again in a  few weeks'   she told them   baby will be bigger  and you'll see more'.