Baby's First Christmas by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella [Ferrarella, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781426870538
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises
Published: 2010-07-17T07:00:00+00:00

The storm was beginning to subside somewhat as he passed the window by the fifth floor waiting area. Automatic doors slid open, admitting him to the section of the floor reserved for the nursery.

He stopped before the nursery window. There was a sea of tiny bodies before him. It seemed like an incredible amount of humanity to be crammed in such a small space. Sullivan surveyed the long rows filled with newborn infants, their identities neatly entered on pink or blue cards and mounted at the foot of their tiny cubicles.

Sullivan leaned his shoulder against the wall next to the window, watching as nurses milled about, tending to the occupants. As he watched, a large-bosomed, maternal-looking nurse lifted a squawking baby and held him against her, rocking and cooing something that the glass wouldn’t allow to be heard.

A nurse who looked as if she were barely out of high school brought in Marlene’s son and gently placed him into his bassinet.

Sullivan studied the infant now that he was all washed and dried off. He cleaned up well, Sullivan mused. With his startling shock of black hair, Robert Travis Bailey looked more like him, Sullivan mused, than his blond mother.

His mouth curved, but the smile was a sad one. See what you could have had, Derek? If you’d only stuck around, you idiot, you could have been standing here instead of me.

Sullivan sincerely doubted that he would ever have children of his own. The world was too rocky and uncertain a place to willingly thrust a child into it. But if he were to have one, he would imagine that the baby would look exactly like the one he’d held in his arms.

The one who now lay sleeping, butt end up, in the bassinet.

He stood and looked at him for a long time.

Sullivan straightened. It was really getting late. He would just look in on Marlene and then leave. He still had his father to see, and he needed to get some sleep before he dropped where he stood.

The corridor was quiet as he made his way down to room 526, where the woman at the admission’s desk told him Marlene had been assigned. It was positioned directly opposite the nurse’s station. Always a good thing, he mused. Maybe she would get faster service.

He cracked the door open as silently as he could, afraid of waking Marlene if she was asleep. She was. Her eyes were closed. Very carefully, he began to back out.

“Come in.” Her voice sounded groggy as it floated to him.

Sullivan slipped back into the room, letting the door close behind him. “I thought you were asleep.”

She smiled at him, or thought she did. It was hard to tell what was real and what was simply in her mind right now. The doctor had given her something for pain, and she was floating in and out.

“Almost. After all the excitement, I’ll probably sleep for a week.” She took a breath, pushing back the exhaustion for just a little longer.

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