Children’s Doctor, Christmas Bride by Lucy Clark

Author:Lucy Clark [Lucy Clark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Medical
ISBN: 9781408902592
Publisher: Mills & Boon
Published: 2008-09-14T14:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

WHEN Jason lay in bed that night, hands behind his head, staring up at the ceiling, he reflected on the events of the day. House calls were usually good fun, especially Monica’s, but today, having Summer and Tommy along had made everything bright and vibrant. It was something Jason realised had been missing from his life since Amanda had walked out to pursue a life without him in it.

When they’d first started going out, Amanda had been happy with her life and they’d fallen in love quickly, marrying just as speedily. She’d seemed happy living in Ballarat, while going to Melbourne to do the occasional fashion show. For their first year of marriage everything had been perfect.

‘Too perfect,’ he muttered into the darkness. Amanda had wanted to wait a few years before they started their family to at least give her time to secure some regular modelling assignments. Then she’d been discovered. When she’d changed agents, it had been as though she’d changed lives. Her career had become her focus, not him, not the family they’d one day planned to have. It hadn’t been until after their move to Melbourne, when he’d begun to see things as they really were, that he’d realised this wasn’t the life he wanted to lead.

‘Come with me,’ she’d squealed happily after delivering the news that she’d been accepted for the European fashion show season.

‘I can’t, Amanda. I have a job. Patients.’

‘Oh, tush. You can get a job anywhere in the world, Jason. We can base ourselves in Milan, you can work there and I can get to all the shows I need to.’

‘And children? What about the family we’ve been planning to have?’

‘You’ve been planning. Not me. Children would wreck my figure.’ She’d brushed his words aside, then added, ‘I suppose if you’re that desperate to have a child, we could always adopt one, but it has to be a really cute one. Oh, I know.’ She’d clapped her hands excitedly. ‘One of those children from China or Vietnam or something like that. It’s all the rage. Oh, and a cute little moppet would look amazing in the photographs. We could do a big spread about how we’ve adopted a child and the media would love it.’ She’d danced excitedly around the apartment, not caring that he’d been completely appalled at these suggestions.

Even now, years later, his stomach still churned at the memory. Children weren’t commodities. They weren’t purchased like handbags. They weren’t merely born to provide an heir to the throne.

Jason thought about Tommy and what Summer had told him. No wonder she’d wanted to get the boy away from Sydney, from people who weren’t interested in Tommy as a person but rather as a possession.

When he’d first met Summer, he’d thought she was like Amanda in many ways but the more he’d come to know her, the more he knew she had very little in common with his ex-wife. Summer was a mother first and foremost. She would do anything to protect her son—even if it meant going up against the Hoyts family.

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