Midwife's Baby Bump by Susanne Hampton

Author:Susanne Hampton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Medical Romance
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

IT WAS ALMOST two weeks since the scan and their confrontation. Flick had continued to avoid Tristan, which wasn’t hard since she was out on community antenatal visits and still completing her external study load.

Her morning sickness was still dragging on. Although it wasn’t as severe, it was showing no sign of leaving. Most nights she tossed and turned, thinking about Tristan and what they had shared. For him, she reasoned it had stopped at just one night but, despite what she’d said, for her it had been so much more. A baby was for ever and she knew the memories of the night they’d spent in each other’s arms would last in her heart for the same time. She couldn’t stop her feelings for him. She wanted them to go way. To disappear overnight so that she woke to feel nothing for him at all.

She hated that she woke thinking about him.

The man who had not even tried to contact her seemed at odds with the man who spent those hours sitting talking on her tiny balcony in the sun, and the man who had made her feel as light as air on the dance floor at the ball and the man who had carried her to bed and made love to her all night long. He had slipped away in the morning light. She wondered if he was just like all the other men her mother had brought home.

She wasn’t sure how she could have been so wrong about him.

But she was finished with him. She had to be for her sanity and what was left of her heart.

* * *

Tristan had requested the digital images from the twelve-week scans to be sent to him electronically so he could take additional time to examine them. Every day he would scrutinise them, looking for something he knew wouldn’t be visible that early into the pregnancy, but he did it anyway. He was searching for confirmation one way or the other. Not knowing was driving him to distraction. Not being able to protect Flick and his child was breaking him.

But also the knowledge that she hadn’t wanted him to leave that morning made it harder to fight his feelings and made him want to be with her even more. He now knew it hadn’t been just a one-night stand. And perhaps there was more than the baby bringing them together. But logic reminded him that, no matter how she’d felt about him the morning they’d woken together and perhaps even did still feel, it might change when she had all the information.

* * *

He would stay late at the hospital, poring over reports and updates about the latest medical breakthroughs in neonatal and in vitro surgical corrections of the defect. The need to immerse himself in work and research potential surgical interventions for their child drove him. He was desperate to be able to tell Flick there was hope when or if the genetic diagnosis was given to them. Until then, he had nothing of value he could say to her.

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