Midwife in Need by Fiona McArthur

Author:Fiona McArthur [McArthur, Fiona]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488098109
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2003-03-22T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

WHEN Rohan knocked on Abbey’s door just after seven that night, he remembered she hadn’t been sleeping well. Hopefully, she hadn’t taken herself off to bed early.

Since his mother had died, he hadn’t put himself out to help someone just for the sake of helping, but he would never forget Abbey if he abandoned her in this state. Well, that was the story he’d told himself as he’d prepared to come over.

It really was beyond his comprehension that Abbey believed she would always disappoint a man sexually, and her fears still had him shaking his head. For someone so confident in every other area, Abbey vulnerable about her femininity was something no one would have guessed.

Rohan knew he wasn’t the man for her, he wasn’t worthy of her, but if he could make her see how wonderful she was and how much she had to offer the man who did deserve her love, then he’d have achieved one worthwhile thing while he’d been here. And he enjoyed the time he spent with Abbey.

When the door opened, Abbey looked more weary than he’d ever seen her. She grimaced and for a minute there he wondered if she’d slam the door in his face.

She sighed. ‘Hello, Rohan.’

It wasn’t the most enthusiastic greeting he’d ever had but he’d take it.

‘Hi, Abbey.’ He held up a bottle of champagne and a punnet of strawberries. ‘Peace offering. I’m sorry I bullied you today in the change room.’ She didn’t say anything and he tried again. ‘Apart from which, it was a pretty huge day and I’d like to share a drink with you.’

She sighed again but stepped back to allow him to enter. He looked around the large hallway with doors leading off it and a staircase that curved up to the next floor’s landing. He hadn’t taken much notice when he’d come the day that Kayla’s baby had been born and the house was larger than he’d thought. To his surprise, apart from the drone of horse-racing commentary in the distance, there was no one about.

‘Come through into my study. You can join Clive and me in front of the fire,’ Abbey said.

Rohan felt like slapping himself on the forehead. Of course she’d have some male friends. He mentally shrugged away his unreasonable disappointment and entered the room to find it empty as well—except for a large German shepherd that rose on his haunches and bared his not-inconsiderable teeth as Rohan came into the room.

‘Sit, Clive,’ Abbey said as she lifted a pile of nursing magazines off the only other chair in front of the fire. ‘Sit, Dr Roberts,’ she said with a mocking smile, and Rohan and Clive both sat. ‘I’ll get two glasses and a dish for the strawberries.’

When she left the room, Rohan looked around. It was a feminine but friendly room, book-lined with an old oak desk and an even older oak chaise longue with colourful cushions under the window. A huge framed Gordon Rossiter painting showed a purple

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