Her Four-Year Baby Secret by Alison Roberts

Author:Alison Roberts
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-11-27T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

IT HAD been ‘just a kiss’.

So why was it that every time it crept back into Fiona’s mind, she felt like something was melting deep inside her body? Making her limbs feel liquid and her brain unable to think of anything other than Nick.

It didn’t help that she had every reason to be thinking of Nick the next day when she set out on her shopping expedition. Or that Sam was skipping along beside her, his excitement overflowing.

‘It’s Uncle Nick’s birthday! We’re going to buy balloons!’

Sam helped choose by pointing out the brightest colours he could see for balloons, finding equally festive party hats and several packets of tiny candles. He helped even more by happily disappearing into the toy corner of the bookshop Fiona visited in the hope of finding a perfect gift.

Locating precisely what she was looking for was a thrill. Fiona touch was almost reverent as she turned the glossy pages of the glorious photographic record and beautifully worded descriptions of the settings used for the movie Nick loved. Imagining his pleasure in this gift gave her an anticipation that easily rivalled Sam’s level of excitement and there was the added bonus of a personal significance with the inclusion of places she had actually taken Nick to visit in the Glenorchy area.

Had it really been only two weeks ago?

With an effort Fiona closed the book and focused on things that still needed to be done. She moved to another section of the shop to choose wrapping paper and ribbon but her choices were made on autopilot because she was still astonished. She felt much closer to Nick than such a short space of time should have allowed for. Far closer than she had felt when she had first known him. By some magic, in the years apart, things had changed enough to make their connection much stronger.

Paying for her purchases, Fiona wondered what Nick was doing. Finishing a Saturday morning ward round, perhaps? There were always a few geriatric patients that needed ongoing care and there could well be a maternity case or something in the emergency department that needed attention. Being an administrator on top of the hands-on medical duties meant that paperwork inevitably accumulated as well.

But maybe Nick had completed all that needed to be done professionally. He might be home again by now. Out walking the dogs, maybe? Standing on the old jetty and letting the peaceful pull of the mountains and lake nudge him into daydreaming?

Was he thinking about her at all?

About that kiss?

What was it going to be like when she saw him again that evening? It would be impossible not to be watching for some kind of signal. An acknowledgement that something had changed between them. An indication that Nick hadn’t been really honest in dismissing what had happened as ‘just a kiss’.

Hoping that he hadn’t been really honest.

She saw nothing. It was Sam who claimed Nick’s attention the instant he stepped through the Murchisons’ door later that day.

‘We’ve got balloons, Uncle Nick.

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