Snowbound with the Billionaire by Carole Mortimer

Author:Carole Mortimer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-12-16T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

‘WHAT’S WRONG WITH HER?’ Jake couldn’t keep the anxiety out of his voice as he hovered over Caro in the semi-darkened bedroom.

Caro sat down on the bed to cradle the obviously distressed Magdalena against her. Jake’s heart had literally stopped when he’d heard Magdalena scream, and he had only been one step behind Caro as they both ran up the stairs, Caro reaching the cot first, to snatch their red-faced daughter up into her arms.

‘More teeth on the way, probably,’ she answered distractedly, even as she put a hand against Magdalena’s obviously heated brow. ‘I have some gel to rub on her gums—if you wouldn’t mind getting it from the changing-bag for me?’ She nodded in the direction of the temporary changing area she had set up earlier on the dressing table.

Jake located the gel easily, his gaze still fixed on Magdalena as he handed the tube to Caro after removing the top. The baby was very red in the face. Her cheeks were wet with tears, and her eyes—the same green as his own—had darkened with distress or pain. Jake couldn’t decide which. Whichever it was, he knew couldn’t bear to see Magdalena this way.

‘Should we call a doctor?’ he prompted gruffly, even as he reached out compulsively to touch the dampness of his baby daughter’s curls.

Caro shook her head. ‘Let’s see if the gel does any good first.’

‘But—’

Caro’s expression was sympathetic as she looked up at him. ‘I know just how useless you feel, seeing her like this, Jake,’ she assured him gently. ‘But just give it a minute or so, hmm?’

This last desolate year aside, that ‘minute or so’ had to be the longest Jake had ever suffered through, as he sat down abruptly beside Caro on the bed and anxiously watched Magdalena’s face for any sign of improvement.

The changes were subtle at first. A slight lessening in the baby’s hiccupping sobs. An easing of the shuddering of her tiny body. A little less redness to her cheeks. Until finally her eyelids began to droop tiredly and her head dropped down onto Caro’s shoulder. She fell back to sleep as if the last ten minutes of trauma had never happened.

Madonna and child…

Jake wasn’t even sure where that unbidden thought had come from. Maybe because tomorrow was Christmas Eve? All he knew was that as he looked at Caro and Magdalena together the anger he had been feeling towards Caro all day died as suddenly as it had flared into life, and he knew that the two of them were as precious to him as that other mother and child had been to the world two thousand years ago.

Caro was his Madonna.

Magdalena his child.

They both belonged to him. Belonged with him. Whether Caro accepted that yet or not.

It was up to Jake to ensure that she did…

* * *

CARO STRAIGHTENED slowly from carefully placing the sleeping Magdalena back in her cot, aware that there had been a sudden shift of emotions in the last few minutes as

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