Their Divine Doctor by Heather Rainier

Author:Heather Rainier
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Book
ISBN: 1619262509
Publisher: Siren-Bookstrand, Inc.
Published: 2011-12-23T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

A couple of weeks later, in mid-September…

Emma shifted her yellow-and-black Aztek into park in front of Grace Warner’s house. She pulled up her planner on her smartphone and checked her to-do list. Duke and Gage had asked her in advance to make preparations for a night out on the town.

At first, she’d been filled with trepidation because that meant dressing up. Dressing up meant makeup. Dressing up and makeup generally involved high heels of some kind. The thought of having to put all that together made her cringe, but at least she had someone to go to. Several “someones,” in fact, but Grace was her go-to gal of choice for today. Plus, she had a baby gift to deliver and a little one to coo at.

Besides the night out, Duke and Gage had also asked if she was taking a vacation in the fall, because they wanted to knock a couple more items off the bucket list. So she’d actually taken the red pen and marked a whole week off in October for their next adventure. They didn’t hint at what they’d planned, but she had big hopes.

She grabbed the handles on the big pink gift bag and climbed from her vehicle. Jack answered the door when she rang the bell, and she smiled when the first thing she heard was the sound of Rose Marie squalling.

“Hi, Emma! Come on in. Grace is expecting you. Pardon the noise.”

“Don’t apologize, Jack. That’s the sound of a healthy, hungry baby. I love it.”

Jack directed her into the living room, where Grace was seated in an upholstered chair, arranging Rose Marie so she could nurse. Emma giggled when the caterwauling ceased in midwail as Rose Marie’s meal began. Grace smiled in relief and beckoned Emma to come sit down.

Emma patted Rose Marie’s head gently before placing the gift within Grace’s reach and then sat nearby. Grace draped a receiving blanket over three-week-old Rose Marie and her shoulder and peeked inside the gift bag. She gasped and pulled the baby quilt from the bag and said, “Did you make this?”

Emma snickered and said, “Grace, I couldn’t quilt to save my life. I found it at that new baby and children’s store in Divine.”

Grace laughed. “Aren’t you worried Jane is going to be pissed off if she finds out you bought a blanket instead of making one? Or you could have had ‘the quilters guild’ make you one.”

The last time she’d encountered one of the members of that group in the grocery store, Tabitha had asked Emma if she’d decided against hiring that “bigamist Warner woman” as an RN at her clinic. Emma had bitten her tongue and politely told her that Maya Warner had graciously agreed to join her staff even though she no longer needed to.

Emma snickered. “I think Jane’s just about given up on me joining her little group. I can sew on a button. That doesn’t mean I want to quilt. Bunch of frumpy gossips.”

Grace burst into giggles, and Emma joined her.

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