Pregnant Midwife On His Doorstep by Marion Lennox

Author:Marion Lennox
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers
Published: 2020-06-09T18:27:04+00:00

The wait for Josh to return seemed to take for ever, but the drugs took hold and Mick seemed to drift in and out of awareness.

He mustn’t have slept all night, Hannah thought. He’d been holding his body over his little family, taking the brunt of the storm himself.

‘You’re a hero,’ she told him as she encouraged him to drink more.

‘It’s Doc O’Connor who’s the hero,’ he muttered thickly. ‘Who’d’a thought a doc would come to this island? Gossip says he’s too damaged after that damned accident to work. Doesn’t look damaged to me.’

‘Nor to me,’ Hannah said stoutly, reflecting, not for the first time, how emotional trauma often left a far worse damage than physical. ‘We’re lucky. He’ll stabilise your leg properly and keep you out of pain until we can get you to hospital.’

‘You his partner?’

‘No.’ The idea gave her a sharp jolt. ‘I’m Miss Byrne’s niece. Josh rescued me as well.’

Luckily Mick was too fuzzy to ask more questions. He lay back and let the morphine send him into a dozy half slumber.

Hannah sat beside him and tried not to feel how uncomfortable she was. Her baby was kicking—hard.

‘You don’t like being sand blasted either,’ she said under her breath. But then she thought, Her baby.

It was an emotional punch. She’d pushed through this pregnancy by putting one foot in front of the other, concentrating on practicalities, but in a few weeks a little person would enter the world. A little person solely dependent on her.

The idea was terrifying.

Would she be able to ring her mother? Her dad would slam the phone down if she tried. Even her sister... She and Bridget had been so close all their lives, but Bridget had caved in, in the face of her father’s rage-filled bullying. When Hannah had tried to call, Bridget had whispered his reaction. ‘Your sister’s shamed us,’ he’d told her. ‘You’ll have nothing to do with her or you’ll leave this family as well.’ There’d been a few furtive calls but their closeness was gone.

Desolation hit like a wall, but then Mick stirred. She needed to refill his mug—for every mouthful he seemed to spill three—and she went back into putting one foot after another mode.

Finally Josh returned, and with that went any time for reflection. He brought a decent piece of wood, and carefully replaced the rough stick he’d used as a first urgent splint. He administered more pain relief, then they laid the truck’s front passenger seat down and manoeuvred Mick aboard.

It sounded simple.

It wasn’t.

‘Right,’ Hannah said at last as she squeezed into what was left of the back seat. ‘Home.’

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