Willow Brook Road by Sherryl Woods

Author:Sherryl Woods [Woods, Sherryl]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-09-29T16:00:00+00:00

13

“You have to understand that I’m just at the beginning stages of thinking this through,” Carrie told her mom and Trace after a bored Patrick had gone back to his room after dinner. “I don’t have all the details worked out. Or any of them, for that matter. I just have lists, a whole lot of very long lists.”

“You’ve always been a natural with kids,” Abby said, her expression thoughtful. “You know, there was a time when I thought you might want to go to medical school just like your sister and become a pediatrician.”

“Not me,” Carrie said at once. “The process takes way too long. You know how impatient I am. I couldn’t wait to get on with my life, even though I obviously didn’t know quite what I wanted that life to be. As for the whole medical thing, that’s Caitlyn’s passion.”

“And you think opening a day-care center could be yours?” Trace asked, studying her closely. “You honestly think you’ll be happy staying here and looking after kids? Kids, who aren’t your own, that is. I think your mother and I figured you’d be settled down with a whole brood by now.”

Carrie shrugged. “So did I, but it hasn’t happened. I’m trying to find an alternative that will be a good fit, something I can be as excited about as Cait is about medicine.”

“It’s a big decision,” he reminded her, as if she weren’t already very well aware of that.

Carrie knew he was making his point only to be sure she wasn’t diving into something this demanding on a whim. Taking care of other people’s children was a huge responsibility. She’d seen that firsthand since she’d been working with Julie. And once she’d committed to it, it wasn’t something she could walk away from on yet another whim. People would be counting on her.

“I know it must seem as if this whole idea has come to me out of the blue and I can’t deny that a few months ago, it had never once crossed my mind,” she conceded.

“What happened?” Trace asked.

“You mean besides realizing that I was in a dead-end relationship and quitting my job with no prospects for another one?” she said dryly.

“Leaving Marc and that job were the smartest things you’d done in a while, if you ask me,” Trace told her, not even trying to hide the disdain he’d managed to mask while the relationship had been new and, she’d claimed, everything she’d ever wanted. “You were too good for him and that job wore you out. It didn’t make you happy.”

“I loved my job,” she protested. And at first Marc had been as attentive as she could possibly have wanted. It was only later that she’d realized that all that attention she’d basked in was nothing more than a jaded attempt to make sure she continued to do his bidding.

Trace regarded her skeptically. “Which part of the job made you want to jump out of bed in the morning? And before you answer, remember my history.

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