Substitute Father by Bonnie K. Winn

Author:Bonnie K. Winn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2001-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

KEALEY STARED at her supervisor, Jack Olson, in shocked dismay. “I know I requested a two-parent home for the Baker children, but the situation has changed. I’m in the process of preparing new documents.”

Jack frowned. “Has he married?”

“No, but on further evaluation, it’s become clear to me that he’s providing a stable environment.”

Shrugging, Jack started to turn away. “The Hendricks are fine foster parents and since the children in their care have been adopted, they have an opening.”

“But—”

“Kealey, you know as well as I do that it’s impossible to wait for a home that would accept all three children. I don’t like dividing siblings any more than you do, but that’s the harsh reality. At least two of them will be together and I have several new openings that can take the third child.”

“Split them up?” Kealey whispered, more horrified than she’d imagined she could be.

“Kealey, you’re not new to this. You know it happens all the time.”

“Jack, why can’t we leave them in Luke Duncan’s care? The children are happy, becoming well adjusted—”

“You filed the papers with the court, remember?”

“I could talk to the judge,” Kealey argued.

“That you could, but you wrote up a pretty persuasive argument on why they shouldn’t be allowed to stay in a one-parent home. How do you plan to backtrack?”

Desperately, Kealey wondered that herself. She could envision the shattered expressions if she had to tell the children they would be split up, the agony she would cause them as well as Luke.

Everyone would be devastated, because she had been so sure she’d known best. So sure she’d refused to see the love between Luke Duncan and the Baker children until it was too late.

So sure she’d convinced a judge to trust her judgment.

And now Kealey wasn’t nearly as sure she could fix what she had set in motion. If she couldn’t, Luke would be right. As he’d predicted, to prove a point, she would be harming the children, yanking them from the one place they belonged. Remembering her newfound determination, she vowed not to let that happen.

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