Lone Star Baby by Debbie Macomber

Author:Debbie Macomber [Macomber, Debbie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488086175
Publisher: MIRA Books
Published: 1998-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 7

FOUR WEEKS. ONE MONTH. And then, this tiny being in Amy’s womb would be in her arms. It didn’t seem possible.

Dressing for her appointment with Dr. Jane, Amy rubbed body lotion over her extended belly. It seemed to stretch halfway across the room. Studying her reflection in the mirror, Amy felt grotesque and misshapen, barely able to believe that this would soon be over. That soon, she’d be holding her baby.

She’d just finished pulling on a dress and slipping into her shoes—she’d long since lost sight of her feet—when the doorbell rang. Wade had wanted to take her to the doctor’s appointment. He was even more attentive now, more solicitous. Increasingly Amy had come to rely on him. He was so gentle with her. Lately when they kissed, he restrained himself with two or three chaste kisses. If it wasn’t for the yearning she read in his eyes, she might have assumed he no longer found her attractive. His gaze told her otherwise.

“You ready?” he asked and walked into the living room.

“I’ll only be a moment,” she promised. “I want to put on some lipstick.”

“You’re perfect just the way you are.”

Amy found his words touching. “You must be at the age where you need glasses, Wade McMillen.”

“My eyesight is twenty-twenty,” he countered. “I happen to recognize a beautiful woman when I see one.”

Amy didn’t know what she’d done to deserve someone like Wade in her life. She knew she’d fallen deeply in love with him, and it had become more and more difficult to hide the depth of her feelings. They hadn’t spoken of love. Not once. And seeing that she was about to give birth to another man’s child, Amy didn’t feel she was in any position to discuss her feelings.

“Mom phoned last night,” Wade told her. “She wanted to see how you’re feeling. She asked me to give you her love.”

“I hope you gave her mine,” she said on her way into the bathroom.

“I did,” Wade called after her.

Amy stood in front of the mirror and applied a pale rose shade of lipstick. It never ceased to amaze her that a woman who was little more than a stranger would send her love, while her own mother had abandoned her. At no time in the past three months had Alicia Thornton made any attempt to contact Amy. Her mail continued to be forwarded and other than a couple of cards from people at her old job, there’d been nothing. No one had tried to reach her. Not her mother. Not Alex.

Which was just as well. She’d left Dallas wanting to escape their influence and make a new life for herself and her child. She liked the people of Promise and they had welcomed her with kindness and generosity. In only a few months Promise felt more like home than any place she’d ever lived.

* * *

DR. JANE PATTERSON’S OFFICE had grown steadily busier over the past two months; today the reception room was almost full. Jenny asked Amy to have a seat and Wade sat with her, holding her hand.

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