Until The Sun Goes Down (Boundless Love Book 3) by Iris Deorre

Chapter One
    ‘…Happy birthday to you…happy birthday dear Joooy…happy birthday to you!’ The group sang as Eugene tried to play the song on the piano.
    ‘Tell everyone just how old you are?’ Sahara beamed at the little girl.
    ‘I’m five years old now, I’m five years old now…’ she tried to sing, but suddenly went shy.
    ‘You’re not shy are you?’ asked Sahara.
    She covered her eyes and giggled. Joy had turned into a beautiful little girl. Her black hair had grown tremendously; to which Sahara was having difficulty maintaining.
    ‘Go on, blow out your candles,’ said Sahara.
    Joy pulled her hands away from her eyes, made a visual sweep around the large living-room and then with all her might, blew out the candles. Everyone clapped, and she quickly went shy again.
    Sahara took Joy into a big hug and gave her a great big kiss. Her life had been amazing the past few years. Her hair had grown down to her shoulders, and she’d put on a bit of weight. She’d expanded her flower business, and had brought on two more assistants.
    She looked at Eugene who stood up from the piano, and winked. She was more in love with him than she’d ever been. They’d certainly grown together, and their bond had become stronger than ever.
    ‘I want to open my present’s mummy.’
    ‘You go on ahead. Daddy will help you while your aunt Emily and I go and sort out the food.’
    Eugene took his cue and walked towards the little girl. All the other children in attendance – most of them from Joy’s private school and Ben – studied Joy with anticipation.
    Emily handed the baby girl to Myles and followed Sahara into the kitchen.
    ‘Right,’ said Sahara as she walked into the kitchen. ‘How’s it going in here Lawrence?’
    ‘Almost done.’ He hurried about.
    Sahara looked at all the junk food spread across the large centre island. Everything from crisps to cakes, sweets, pizza slices, fish fingers, chips…Every child’s favourite food was available for their taking.
    ‘Are you planning to have these children bouncing off the walls?’
    ‘Precisely. It’s Joy’s day and I want all her friends to enjoy it. She only gets to be five once.’
    ‘That’s what you said last year.’
    ‘She only got to be four once, so it’s true.’ she giggled.
    ‘You look stunning,’ Emily said. ‘I just can’t help, but be amazed at how great you look.’
    ‘Oh thank you Emily.’ She took her friend into a hug. ‘You look amazing too.’
    ‘Oh please, not with all the baby fat I don’t.’
    ‘Oh, don’t be so hard on yourself. You look great!’
    Emily and Myles’s little girl had come as a surprise. Something about Emily taking antibiotics and taking no further precaution while on the pill. That was how the story went, but it wasn’t a horrible surprise, in fact they were over the moon about it.
    ‘I’ll get back to a –’
    ‘Don’t say it. Just be happy with what you are.’
    ‘Don’t say what?’ Felicity joined them.
    ‘Hey, when did you get here? I didn’t even hear the doorbell.’ Sahara rushed over and hugged her.
    ‘That’s because Joy saw me before I had a chance to ring that fancy doorbell of yours. And I know the security number to the gates.’
    ‘Of course you do.’ Sahara chuckled.
    ‘Hey you.’ Felicity hugged Emily.
    ‘Hey, what time do you call this?’
    Felicity laughed, but didn’t respond to the question. Instead she picked up one of the pizza slices and ate it. She hadn’t moved on in her relationship life, it was the one thing she just couldn’t crack. It had been relationship after relationship to the point she had begun to think there was something wrong with her.
    ‘You always take yourself with you, in every relationship.’ Sahara had said after Felicity had broken up with her fourth boyfriend. ‘So you’ve got to ask yourself some serious questions.’
    ‘I think I’m doomed to be single,’ she’d said.
    ‘That’s not true, and don’t shut your heart out to