Baby Doctors by Janice Macdonald

Author:Janice Macdonald
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2007-04-14T16:00:00+00:00

“THIS IS A GREAT HOUSE,” Sarah said after she’d finally selected a dress—the black spaghetti-strap number. Elizabeth had talked her into it, but she was also taking the off-white one, just in case.

She looked around the room—her entire apartment would have fit into one corner. One wall was an arrangement of floor-to-ceiling windows, of varying heights ranging from about ten feet to a soaring panel that reached the highest point of the cathedral ceilings. The design was clearly intended to maximize the panoramic views of water and sky and distant coastline. A massive floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace dominated another wall.

Elizabeth had gone to make cappuccino and Sarah sank into a sand-colored suede sectional which, like everything else about the house, was tasteful and obviously very expensive. Recalling Matthew’s seeming indifference to his physical space—as reflected in the anonymous jumble of his boyhood bedroom—she wondered how involved he had been in the decorating.

“We used to have so many fights over the money when we were building this place,” Elizabeth said, coming back in and setting two oversized black cappuccino cups on the glass coffee table. “When he found out what those windows cost, we didn’t speak for a week.”

Sarah sipped at the coffee beneath the froth. “Did you live here the whole time you were married?”

“No. We had it built after Lucy was born. We’d been living in a house on Peabody. I was always complaining that we needed something bigger, but Matthew was busy at the hospital and it was as if he didn’t really hear me until Lucy arrived.” She grinned. “I could pretty much buy anything as long as I could somehow make it seem it was what Lucy needed.”

Sarah thought of Matthew’s defense of Lucy on the fossil trip. I wanted my daughter to have the things I never had. Most parents felt that way, she guessed, but it saddened her to think that Matthew could be so easily manipulated and that he apparently couldn’t see that he was doing his daughter no favors. But then I don’t have kids. “He moved out after the divorce?”

“Yeah. I suggested we sell this and look for a smaller place. Lucy and I didn’t need all this room, but it was the same old story. Sometimes, even now, I walk through the rooms and instead of seeing how beautiful everything is, I can almost hear all the arguments we used to have about money.”

Sarah looked at her. “So you’d spend the money, Matthew would worry about it, but then justify it because of Lucy?”

Elizabeth nodded. “Go figure.” She got up from the couch and returned with a slip of paper. “Before I forget, I was talking to this girl who came into the restaurant. I was telling her that I have this friend who’s an incredible doctor and she’s going to start making house calls.”

Sarah smiled. “You don’t know how much I appreciate hearing that. Actually, you’re the only one I’ve told who doesn’t think I’m out of my mind.”

“Don’t feel bad about Matthew’s attitude,” Elizabeth said.

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