Snatched from my arms

Caroline, 28

Clutching her pink backpack, stuffed with her teddy and favourite PJs, my daughter Claire, 2, beamed ‘I can’t wait to see Daddy, ’ she squealed.

I crouched to cuddle her.

‘Have a fab time, ’ I smiled It was February 2019 and my relationship with Claire’s dad, Liam, hadn’t been easy.

We’d met at a party and Liam, then 27, had seemed friendly and very attractive We had fun together, but it didn’t get serious.

Then, two years on, I fell pregnant.

‘I want this baby, ’ I told Liam.

Although he nodded, slowly I noticed I