Baby Makes Six by Shelley Galloway

Author:Shelley Galloway [Galloway, Shelley]
Format: epub
Tags: American Light Romantic Fiction, Divorced people, Romance: Modern, Single mothers, Contemporary, General, Romance, Romance - General, Romance - Contemporary, Fiction, Fiction - Romance
ISBN: 9780373752959
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-01-11T12:00:00+00:00

AS THEY WERE LED down the hall, Shawn found herself glancing Eddie’s way. To her surprise, he was scanning the pale pink walls and bulletin boards filled with birth announcements with a smile, all traces of their argument long gone.

“Here’s Elsie’s photo,” he said, pointing to the pink-and-white announcement Shawn had made on their home computer. Standing next to him, she chuckled. “Elsie was so bald. Oh, she was cute.”

The nurse grinned. “You two already have a child?”

“We already have three. We’re here for number four,” Eddie said just as if they’d planned it.

“Four! Oh, my! We don’t have too many patients who want to have four children.”

“Sometimes things just happen,” Shawn said dryly as she stepped on the scale.

Eddie didn’t even try to look away from her weight. When he frowned at it and then at her, she glared his way. “What?”

“Your weight seems low. Would you look back and see what Shawn’s weight was for her fifth month last time?”

Before Shawn could intervene, the nurse—Debbie—was flipping through pages. “Here it is,” she said, pointing to the notation. “Mrs. Wagner, you’re ten pounds less at five months than the last time.”

“That’s great.” Now she’d have even less baby weight to take off.

But Eddie shook his head, still concerned. “I don’t think it’s great. Go back and check her weight with the other two, would you please?”

Now Shawn was just getting annoyed. “Eddie, this isn’t any of your business,”

Debbie pointed to a chair. “Why don’t you have a seat, Shawn? This might take a moment.”

Shawn couldn’t believe it, but she sat. And waited. And then felt a little bit of anxiety when Debbie reported that she was eight pounds less than she was during Kit’s and Mary’s pregnancies, too. “It’s probably because I was lighter to begin with. I lost weight during the divorce.”

“That much?”

Actually she wasn’t sure. “Probably.”

“I’m writing a note for Dr. Axman,” Debbie said. “Now, let’s get your blood pressure.” After a few moments she smiled at Eddie. “Blood pressure’s good.”

“That’s great.”

When they entered the examining room, Shawn had given up pretending Eddie wasn’t involved and didn’t want to be. Obviously he wanted to be involved a lot. When they were alone, she murmured, “Ed, I’ve got to slip out of this dress. Want to turn around?”

Instead of answering, he walked behind her and deftly unfastened the top three buttons of her dress, then helped her pull it over her head. Just as she started to feel exposed, standing in front of him in a maternity bra and underwear, he picked up the neatly folded cloth robe on the exam table, flicked it open and helped her into it.

The whole process took a minute, tops. So why did it feel as if their comfort level with each other had just taken another dramatic shift forward? Eddie had to be the only person she knew who could help her change clothes in such a relaxed way, without a hint of embarrassment.

Given their circumstances, that was a good thing.

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