HER MIRACLE TWINS by MARGARET BARKER

Author:MARGARET BARKER, [BARKER,, MARGARET]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ROMANCE - MEDICIAL
Publisher: HARLEQUIN
Published: 2013-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

THEY WALKED SLOWLY back along the leafy path that gave them shade from the hot sun before turning into the road leading in the direction of the hotel. There was no need for conversation. Both of them were lost in their own thoughts. Michel was holding her hand firmly as if he was afraid she might fall on the rough causeway. It was a new experience for him to have an unborn child in his care that wasn’t a patient of his. A baby that he’d created, with the help of this beautiful woman beside him.

It had been an out of this world experience that he was trying hard to forget now. He knew the original plan was the best course of action. He must keep reminding himself that fatherhood was all he wanted.

Chantal was also thinking about the wonder of being pregnant again. She’d known the joy of carrying her first unborn child but that had lasted only three months. She was remembering how she’d had a completely different outlook on life, a feeling of responsibility to another human being. That was coming back to her now. Especially since Sebastian had confirmed her pregnancy. Michel had been over the moon when she’d emerged from the examination room.

He tightened his grip on her hand as they began to cross the road. She turned her head and smiled up at him.

‘I know what you’re going through,’ she said gently as they crossed to the other side.

‘Do you? I doubt it.’ He gave her a wry smile. ‘I’ve just learned that I’m going to be a father and the responsibility is overwhelming.’

‘That’s what I mean. I felt exactly the same with my first pregnancy. But that was short-lived and a totally different situation from this. I thought I had a partner who would stand by me. I was wrong. But there are definitely two of us committed to being good parents to our child this time, right?’

He fell silent again as the possibility of losing Chantal in childbirth taunted him. That was rare in countries where medical care was advanced, but it should never be discounted. He realised his strong feelings for Chantal were intensifying the more he was with her. That was only natural when she was going to be the mother of his baby.

She stood still at the top of one of the side roads. ‘I’d like to take a slight detour to show you my apartment.’

‘That would be interesting. Is it let to someone else at the moment?

They were already walking down the Rue de l’Assomption. ‘No. My mother bought two apartments next to each other when I passed my final medical exams and I became financially independent for the first time in my life.’

‘It looks as if it’s a pricey sort of area around here.’

‘It is, but we were very lucky. My mother had been paying rent for several years on one of the apartments. She scrimped and saved to pay the rent, telling me that it was important she bring up her daughter in a good neighbourhood.

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