Faith, Hope and Love by Beverly Barton

Author:Beverly Barton
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Thrillers, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9781408929780
Publisher: MIRA
Published: 2010-11-30T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

With each passing day Faith regained her strength, but Worth insisted she not overdo. Lindsey, Jody and Margaret took turns bringing over home-cooked meals, so all Worth had to prepare was their breakfast each morning. He’d become a whiz at scrambled eggs and toast. He did all the chores, even though Faith kept insisting she could help. Keeping the apartment clean and the laundry done had been a piece of cake compared to caring for Hope. It hadn’t taken him more than twenty-four hours to realize a four-month-old needed something almost continuously. He’d lost track of how many disposable diapers they’d been through in five days, how many bottles Hope had gulped down and how many miles he had walked holding her in his arms, usually in the middle of the night.

With a towel wrapped around his waist and tucked into his jeans, Worth stood at the sink, one hand supporting Hope’s back while the other maneuvered a small washcloth over her soft, chubby body. She gurgled and laughed and slapped at the water in which she sat. Worth had learned the hard way that when giving Hope her bath, he’d better prepare himself for a bath, too. Her plump, dimpled hand reached for the yellow rubber duck that he’d discovered was a necessity during bath time. As he rinsed his daughter with lukewarm water, he wondered if all infants loved water the way Hope did. His little girl was definitely part fish.

“Need any help?” Faith stood in the bathroom doorway.

“Hey, there, Mommy.” Worth glanced at Faith and smiled. “We’re almost finished here. How about getting our towel for us?”

Faith lifted the folded hooded towel from the vanity, opened it and held it for Worth. He slipped Hope’s head into the hood then wrapped her in the terry cloth and handed her to Faith.

“Can you manage her okay? She’s a chunk.”

“She weighed nine pounds when she was born,” Faith said as she took her child and carried her into the bedroom.

Worth let the water out of the sink, dried off the vanity and set the rubber duck back in the mesh bag of bath toys hanging on the wall. When he joined mother and daughter, Faith had Hope lying on the bed with a diaper on and was struggling with the wiggling infant as she tried to pull on her one-piece pajamas.

Worth placed his hand on Faith’s shoulder. “Do you realize you just remembered something else?”

“I did, didn’t I? I remembered Hope weighed nine pounds when she was born.” Faith sighed. “My memory is coming back in bits and pieces, not whole chunks. I recall unconnected, independent facts and incidents.”

Worth squeezed her shoulder. “But every day you seem to recall more and more of these tidbits. Pretty soon those whole chunks of memory will return.”

“I hope so.” Faith managed to finish dressing Hope, then sat on the edge of the bed and placed Hope in her lap. “I’ve started keeping a list.” She nodded to the dressing table under the double windows across the room.

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