Christmas Knight by Meredith Webber

Author:Meredith Webber
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-09-08T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

LIFE settled into a routine. Baby names were added and crossed off the list that wasn’t really a list, and Katie began not only to feel human but to fret about not doing more.

Especially when Grant had free time, because being with him, whether in the house talking over the day, or out of it walking the baby or going for drives to places they’d frequented as children, was making her think things she shouldn’t think. Being with him was giving her an idea of family that was dangerous in the extreme as Grant would be gone within weeks and she’d be more alone than ever.

‘I’ve found a phone number for an agency in Brisbane,’ she announced, when he came back from surgery to join her for lunch on the fourth Monday of his stay.

‘Looking for another locum? What did I do wrong?’

His teasing smile caused heart problems which were another reason she should be doing more. It was having so little to do that had her mind thinking things it shouldn’t think, while Grant’s constant presence had her body behaving in ways that the new mother in her found shockingly irresponsible.

‘I need a nanny, not another locum. Vi’s come up with one or two possibilities, but one lass is engaged to a young man in Craigtown and will be moving away as soon as they’re married, and the other is just the kind of woman I want but she’s planning a three-month trip overseas early in the new year. And also, I don’t know if a live-in mightn’t be better—for call-outs.’

‘Vi was talking about Mrs Carter, the woman who’s going overseas. I don’t know about her. One of my younger sisters was at school with a Carter and I’m sure Sue said Mrs Carter used to beat her kids.’

‘Mary Carter? That can’t possibly be right.’

‘OK, not beat them but wave a wooden spoon at them,’ Grant conceded, though why he felt obliged to throw a spanner in the ‘nanny’ works, he wasn’t sure. Looked at sensibly, having someone else in the house, if only during the day, was a good idea. It would provide a kind of buffer zone between himself and Katie, so maybe his body would stop reacting to her presence and his mind stop thinking things it shouldn’t think.

‘All our mothers waved wooden spoons at us as kids—it was the ultimate threat. Mum’s actually connected with the back of my legs from time to time, and I don’t think it’s done me any irreparable damage.’ She paused, then half smiled as she added, rather sadly, ‘Though maybe Mum thinks it has. Or maybe she’s thinking she didn’t do it often enough.’

‘What’s happened between you?’

Grant hadn’t realised he was going to ask the question, but there’d been so much pain in Katie’s words, he’d blurted it out.

She hesitated, sighed, then said softly, ‘She’s old-fashioned, I guess. And me coming back to Testament made things worse. You know what Mum was like. Underneath, she’d do anything for anyone, but she did tend to lord it over people.

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