The Surgeon King's Secret Baby by Amy Ruttan

Author:Amy Ruttan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-10-16T13:06:33+00:00

Chapter Seven

THE SURGERY SEEMED to take an eternity.

Kainan had stayed in the hospital until he was certain that Peter had pulled through and been hooked up to the left ventricular assist device. He’d done it with flying colors. Then he’d gone with Reagan to the pediatric critical care unit, where Peter had been moved to an isolation room.

There was only enough room for the nurses and the doctors to navigate and one chair, which was where Reagan had curled up in her street clothes with a hospital gown over her. She’d looked completely uncomfortable, but Kainan hadn’t been able to get her to budge.

There had been no place for him. So he’d left.

He had to put some distance between himself and the hospital anyway. He felt so helpless.

Ever since he’d become King and been whisked away to Canada he’d felt this way, but it came into painful Technicolor how truly helpless he was when he gazed into the incubator at his son.

He was just like his father, who had been absent for most of his childhood. Kainan was following in his father’s lead and he loathed himself.

You didn’t even know Peter existed. That’s why you weren’t there, he told himself.

Only that didn’t make him feel any better. Things had to change. He refused to be like his father. His father who hadn’t taken care of his illegitimate children...his father who had broken his mother’s heart and been distant with his legitimate children.

Kainan refused to force Peter into an unhappy childhood like he’d had.

He’d already missed so much. Three months of Peter’s life. And if he didn’t get a new heart soon Kainan would never know him. Never speak to him.

Reagan said he didn’t cry, that she’d barely heard Peter’s voice.

Just like me.

Peter had no voice but he was still here, fighting to live.

Reagan was strong. She would be able to handle the burdens of royal life. He felt guilty for having to impose them upon her, but it was the only way to protect them if he died.

Remember how it broke your mother, though. How it hardened Alek and you.

He had almost lost it when he’d seen Reagan bend over Peter before they took him to surgery. She had bent down and whispered to him to be strong and she’d touched him, kissed him through the surgical mask.

It had alost been too much for him to take. It had taken all his strength to keep himself from breaking down.

Reagan had been so strong and he so weak in that moment. The thought of losing his son had too much for him to bear, but Reagan had needed him. He knew she liked to have walls up, not to show any weakness. But when she cracked he would swallow his worry, his sorrow, and step up to bear it for her.

He wanted to take Reagan and Peter’s pain for them. To be better than his own father. If Kainan didn’t survive his surgery, if Peter wasn’t legitimized, then Kainan wouldn’t be able to leave his fortune to them.

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