Commitments by Barbara Delinsky

Author:Barbara Delinsky [Delinsky, Barbara]
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, General, Fiction - Romance, Love stories, Romance - Contemporary, Romance & Sagas, Modern fiction, Popular American Fiction, Journalists, Contemporary Women, Married women, Manhattan (New York; N.Y.), Prisoners
ISBN: 9780446508674
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2010-03-17T05:00:00+00:00

than she could say. Travel-Nicky was difficult at best. Having Derek lending physical and emotional support, two days a bit more bearable. was humbled by the experience. He'd heard's descriptions of life with Nicky, but he hadn't 347 been able to fully comprehend the nature of the demands until he'd had to meet them himself. No amount of special feelings - and he had plenty of those for the child - could blunt the fact that when one took care of Nicky, one had time for precious little else in life. ' am in awe of you/ he told Sabrina during their drive back north. ' incredible patience you must have had all those months,

-the physical strength alone to continue.' . ' did my share of crumbling/ she said softly. Nicky was lying against her, asleep. Her own eyes were closed, her cheek resting on his baby-soft hair. ' my ex-husband. He'll tell you how wonderful I was.' ' never calls, does he?' '.' ''d think he'd want to know about his son. Will you tel'I him about this visit?' She shook her head. ' few more seizures, a few more pills. He won't be interesfied. No, that's wrong. It's not a matter of interest. He just can't cope with the idea of his son being flawed like this.' Derek took his eyes from the road to dart intermittent glances her way. While her words might have easily been bitter, they weren't. Indeed, there was a serenity to her - the same serenity he remembered from the first time he'd seen her. She'd been holding Nicky then, too. She was a natural mother. In spite of the fatigue she felt, Sabrina had a difficult time saying good-bye to Nicky at the Greenhouse door. Derek could understand that. He'd had a glimpse of Nicky's smile the night before. He'd felt the tear in his heart, and Nicky wasn't even his. During the drive back to the farmhouse, Derek held Sabrina close to his side. She was quiet through most 348 of the ride, but she didn't seem strung as tightly as she'd been when she'd returned after seeing Nicky -on Thanksgiving day. He wanted to think that his presence made the difference. When he turned off on the road to the farmhouse, though, he had a moment's sharp fear that his presence was going to make another kind of difference. ' have guests., Sabrina, too, was peering through the windshield. ,,The light snow that had been falling for the past several hours didn't come close to covering the sleek gray Jaguar that stood by the house. ' it?' Derek asked. Held stopped a distance away and was approaching cautiously. '.' She wouldn't have been concerned, had it not en for the tension in his voice. ' about you?

He gave a short shake of his head. ' car like that , be hard to forget. ' burglar would be driving a Jaguar. But a big shot from New York would, Derek thought..-T-hen he got close enough to decipher Vermont plates the snow.

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