Single Dad, Outback Wife by Amy Andrews

Author:Amy Andrews
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

ANOTHER two weeks on and they were only two days from moving the service to Byron temporarily. It had taken her a while, longer than she’d hoped, but Georgina had organised a new timetable for the remaining three weeks. The Health Department had issued them with a minibus, which would assist with the transportation of clients from their communities to Byron and back again.

It wasn’t the most efficient way to operate but an essential part of the eye service was its flexibility. Things often cropped up out here that would never happen in the city, and Georgina had spent the last five years adapting the programme to fit around such occurrences.

Cory, the reason why they were uprooting themselves to Byron, didn’t appear to mind being dragged around the outback. They were in their seventh location since he’d joined them. As long as he had his art stuff, he took the constant packing and unpacking and moving around as passively and submissively as he took everything else.

But Georgina had seen an improvement in him and was encouraged by it, though she knew Andrew still worried. He was eating more and the dark circles that had ringed his eyes a couple of weeks ago were slowly disappearing. He even smiled from time to time. But, still, the road wasn’t the place for a child.

Being at Byron would be the best thing for Cory. For one thing, Mabel would make it her mission to fatten him up. But more importantly, it wasn’t appropriate to have him constantly around a bunch of adults. OK, he did seem mature beyond his years. She supposed having a blind mother would have forced responsibilities on him that few kids his age would ever have had to think about. But he still needed to socialise with other kids, which he wasn’t really doing at any of the camps, preferring to hang out with the elders.

She was keen to introduce him to Charlie. She had a feeling they’d be fast friends. Her nephew, also quite mature for having grown up around a bunch of adults, needed someone his own age, too. And despite their vastly different backgrounds, they both had one thing in common—losing their mothers.

Andrew had taken her advice and was being more physically affectionate with Cory, too. She knew Andrew was disheartened by Cory’s persistent guarded response but she also knew that Andrew was going to have to put in the hard yards with this one if he wanted it to pay dividends.

‘Give him time,’ she had said to him only the previous day as Cory had passively accepted a hug from Andrew, only to squirm out seconds later.

She had squeezed his hand and smiled at him sympathetically and they had shared a strangely intimate moment that had left her feeling slightly dizzy. Ever since the day they’d come back to Tulla after Bobby, there had been an undercurrent between them that was getting hard to ignore.

She’d decided that strange day to just be polite and stay aloof.

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