Sleigh Ride with the Single Dad by Alison Roberts

Author:Alison Roberts [Roberts, Alison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarlequinUKLtd
Published: 2017-09-12T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

‘BIT COLD FOR the park today, isn’t it, Doc? They’re sayin’ it could snow.’

‘I know, but the boys are desperate for a bike ride. We haven’t been able to get outside to play for days.’

Jack brightened at the prospect of leaving the tiny space that was his office by the front door of this apartment block.

‘Stay here. I’ll fetch those bikes from the basement. Could do with checkin’ that the rubbish has been collected.’

‘Oh, thanks, Jack.’ It was always a mission managing two small boys and their bikes in the elevator. This way, he could get their coats and helmets securely fastened without them trying to climb on board their beloved bikes.

As always, he cast more than one glance towards the door at the back of the foyer as he got ready to head outside. He remembered wanting to knock on it when Grace had first moved in and that he’d been held back by some nebulous idea of boundaries. He didn’t have any problems with it now.

They’d come a long way since then. Too far, perhaps, but they’d obviously both decided to put that ill-advised kiss behind them and focus on a friendship that was growing steadily stronger.

And Charles had news that he really wanted to share.

So he knocked on Grace’s door. He knew she had a day off today because he’d started taking more notice of her name on the weekly rosters.

‘Charles... Hi...’ Was it his imagination or was there a glow of real pleasure amidst the surprise of a morning caller?

He could certainly feel that glow but maybe it was coming from his own pleasure at seeing her. Especially away from work, when she wasn’t wearing her scrubs, with her hair scraped back from her face in her usual ponytail. Today, she was in jeans tucked into sheepskin-lined boots and she had a bright red sweater and her hair was falling around her face in messy waves—a bit like it had been when he’d come home to find her sound asleep on his couch.

Horse sneaked past her legs and made a beeline for the boys, who shrieked with glee and fell on their furry friend for cuddles.

‘I have something I have to tell you,’ Charles said.

Her eyes widened. ‘Oh, no...is it Miranda? Helena texted me to say she was involved in that subway tunnel collapse—that she’d been trapped under rubble or something.’

Charles shook his head. ‘She’s fine. She didn’t even need to come into the ER. A paramedic took care of her, apparently. No, it’s about Toby. I just had a call from PICU.’

He could hear the gasp as Grace sucked in her breath. ‘Toby?’

‘Yes. He woke up this morning.’

‘Oh...it’s been forty-eight hours. I was starting to think the worst... Is he...? Has he...?’

‘As far as they can tell, he’s neurologically intact. They’re going to run more tests but he recognises his parents and he’s said the few words he knows. And he’s smiling...’

Grace was smiling, too. Beaming, in fact. And then she noticed Jack as the elevator doors opened and he stepped out with a small bike under each arm.

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