A Home for the M.D. by Gina Wilkins

Author:Gina Wilkins
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-10-11T04:00:00+00:00

Awakening with a start, Jacqui rolled over to look at the illuminated clock on her bedside. 3:00 a.m. Great.

Knowing she wouldn’t sleep again with the echo of her sister’s voice in her head, she climbed out of the bed. The house was silent, and she figured Mitch was sound asleep, but she still thought it best not to go traipsing around in nothing but a thigh-length nightshirt—even though he had seen her in that outfit before, she remembered with a slight wince. She pulled on the jeans she’d left draped over the foot of the bed. Figuring that counted as at least mostly dressed, she walked barefoot out of the room, making her way silently down the stairs to the kitchen.

She opened the refrigerator door and reached for a bottle of water. A half bottle of wine caught her eye, but she left it sitting there. That was her mother’s sleepless-night crutch, not hers.

Too restless to sit, she leaned against the counter to sip her water. She stared at the table across the shadowy room, but what she saw instead was the kitchen of the Craftsman house she and Mitch had toured that afternoon. She had taken one look at that house and fallen in love. Every step she’d taken inside had only fanned the flames of that passion. The house had been perfect. Exactly the style she and Olivia had always talked about when they’d lay awake at night in a cheap apartment or motel and fantasized about the home they would have someday.

She wanted a house like that. Oh, not that particular one. As much as she had loved it, it had been well out of her price range for any foreseeable future. But she could find a less expensive little house in a less expensive neighborhood and decorate in a similar style. She could paint and hang wallpaper, and she figured she could learn to grout tile and refinish secondhand furniture.

Maybe it was time for her to start haunting estate sales and garage sales on her days off, collecting a few things for the little house she wanted to buy. She’d been in the habit of not accumulating possessions so it would be easier to move when the time came, but she hoped her next move would be into a little house where she could stay for a nice long while. Her goal had been to own a home by the time she turned thirty, just less than a year away. She saw no reason why she couldn’t fulfill that dream.

If she had needed any evidence of how different she and Mitch were, she figured their outing today had done the trick. He had looked at apartments and condos and houses with little enthusiasm, seemingly willing to settle for the first reasonably suitable option. From what she could tell, he’d seen the houses as potential anchors, more long-term commitment and responsibility than he was looking for. For someone who had just spent—what had he said, six years?—living in a rented duplex, he certainly saw himself as the footloose type.

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