Doctor, A Nurse: A Christmas Baby by Amy Andrews

Author:Amy Andrews
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2009-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Maggie felt sick just looking at the test as she pulled it out of the pack. Sick and nervous. But was it a positive result that was making her feel that way or a negative one? She put it on the kitchen bench. She’d been to the toilet before leaving work and doubted very much if she could produce any urine for the test right at this moment.

So she made a cup of tea, relying on the diuretic effect of it to work its magic on her bladder. She sat out on her back deck in the morning sunshine, the December sun already packing quite a punch. She tried to concentrate on her lovely gardens bordered with the native trees and shrubs she’d lovingly planted with her own hands, but her mind kept wandering to what colour she was going to paint the nursery and for a little while she let herself indulge in the fantasy.

When she finished her cup she went and poured another, torn between wanting to do the test and being terrified of the result. If it was negative, which of course it was going to be, she knew she was going to be bitterly disappointed. She shouldn’t be. It was wrong to want it. It was a dream she’d given up on long ago but the yearning in every fibre of her being this morning was almost a physical ache.

God, she’d gone through a decade of this—negative pregnancy tests—waiting for that magic second line or the dot to turn blue or whatever newfangled gimmick the test boasted to relay the happy-sad news to its user. How could she go through it all again?

The second cup of tea disappeared and Maggie forced herself to stop being such a coward and just do it. She made her way to the much closer main bathroom, not trusting herself to walk the extra distance to her en suite without chickening out.

She followed the directions but when she held it in her hands straight afterwards she couldn’t bear to look. She couldn’t bear to see the little red sign in the window. Not again. She left it on the cistern, washed her hands in the bathroom and fled back out to the deck to muster some courage.

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