One Night to Forever Family by Meredith Webber

Author:Meredith Webber
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-07-08T18:48:46+00:00

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‘And his father—this Ned—was he at university with you?’ Sam asked, aware she’d usually have put an ‘and Nick’ at the end of that question.

But the peaceful, pleasant evening she’d enjoyed with Andy the previous night had left her more aware of Andy than when she’d been living with him.

And that had been bad enough!

Then she’d been able to put it down to proximity, especially after the night together, but now she was beginning to wonder if the awareness was more than physical attraction—not that she was even going to think about the L word.

Love had been too hard, like a prison she couldn’t escape.

The arrival of young Eddie blocked all extraneous thoughts from her mind, especially as his father was beaming with joy.

‘He reacted to the noise of the MRI in spite of the earmuffs,’ he told them, although the little boy lay still, eyes closed again.

‘He opened his eyes and moved his legs.’

‘That’s great, Ned, but we’ll still keep him here and do further tests. The bloods should be back soon, and they’ll tell us more, but everything is looking positive for the moment.’

‘I’ll phone my wife,’ Ned said, and disappeared out of the room.

‘He didn’t want us to see him crying,’ Sam said softly.

‘And you,’ Andy asked, looking intently into her eyes. ‘Are you worrying again about the myriad things that can endanger a child and how a parent can protect them from everything?’

She shot him a quick smile. ‘No, I was thinking how lucky they were to have such an intelligent dog!’

And with that she walked away, because of course she’d been worrying about how parents managed to survive their children’s childhoods, Though the likelihood of her ever having to go through such agony was diminishing fast.

She’d known when she’d chosen to go into intensive care that it would be six hard years before she became qualified, then another six months before she qualified for paediatric intensive care. She’d done those final six months in London and had stayed another six months because the hospital had offered so many learning opportunities.

So now, at thirty-five, it wasn’t that she was running out of time to have a child, but running out of time to have children—a family, something she’d dreamed about since she’d been a child herself, brought up by a single mother who’d been banished from her own family as a disgrace.

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