His New Amish Family by Patricia Davids

Author:Patricia Davids
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-04-06T16:51:50+00:00

Chapter Eight

“Paul!” Sophie’s face lit up with a bright smile. “Come see my friends.” She made the animals wag their paws at him.

He swallowed hard and walked over to her. “Clyde and Juliet are old friends of mine. Which one of them is going to eat this treat?”

She laid them aside. “Me.”

He sat down on the sofa beside her. To his surprise, she climbed in his lap and cupped his cheek with her hand. “I’ve been missing you.”

His heart swelled with emotion. “I’ve been missing you, too. Are you feeling better?”

She nodded. “I had a seezmure.”

Paul looked up to see Clara watching them from the doorway. “She means a seizure,” Clara explained as she sat on the arm of the sofa.

Sophie nodded solemnly. “I didn’t like it.”

He pulled her close in a tender hug. “I’m sorry you had a seizure, little one. That must have been very scary.”

“Mamm was crying and I got scared of all the people staring at me. I thought it would happen again. Will it happen again?”

“I don’t know. I pray it won’t.”

“Want a bite of my sherbet?” She offered him a spoonful.

“You finish it. You’re going home today. Toby is waiting downstairs.”

“I’m going to ride in a car?” Her eyes widened with glee. “Can we go really fast?”

“As fast as the law allows,” Clara said. “Eat up, the nurse will be here soon to take us down to the car.”

When the nurse came in, Sophie happily hopped into the wheelchair for the ride down to the car. Clara and Paul walked behind her. Several nurses waved goodbye as she passed the main desk. Paul hung back while they got her wheelchair into the crowded elevator. “I’ll catch the next one,” he said as the doors closed.

A nurse walking past stopped. “Was that Sophie going home?”

He smiled. “It was.”

The woman patted his arm. “Your daughter is a special little girl. We are all praying for her.”

Rather than explain that he had no claim to the child, he simply nodded and got on the next elevator that stopped.

Sophie and Clara were already out the front door when Paul arrived in the main lobby. He watched Toby get out of the car and run to hug his mother. “I missed you.”

Paul had a moment to wish her smile for him had been as radiant as the smile she bestowed on her child. The thought was quickly followed by a hearty mental shake. There was no comparison between a mother’s love for her children and her feelings for a friend.

* * *

Thrilled to have both children with her again, Clara hugged them until Toby complained that she was crushing him. When he and Sophie were settled in the back seat between Clara and Paul, Jessica turned around after lifting Patches out of a pet carrier on the front seat. “I think someone has been missing Sophie.”

“Patches!” Sophie took the cat and cuddled her close. “I missed you so much.”

Clara smiled at Jessica. “Thank you. She has been worried sick about her pet.

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