TRUE-LIFE
Holding out the positive pregnancy test, I watched my boyfriend John Paul’s face.
Like me, he was stunned. We’d only been dating a few months, after meeting on Facebook.
First, he frowned. Took a deep breath. Then…
‘I’ll stand by you,’ he promised, pulling me in for a hug.
John Paul, then 26, was a broad-shouldered former squaddie with a reputation for being a bit of a player.
I’d been sure that he’d run a mile!
But he stuck to his word, moved in with me and my son Kielan, then 6.
Doted on me as my bump blossomed, and was by my side in July 2016 when our boy, Elijah-Rhys, was born.
