A Family to Come Home to by Josie Metcalfe

Author:Josie Metcalfe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

‘MUM? Why won’t they let me have any lights on?’

Sam’s plaintive question nearly broke her heart but she couldn’t let him know it. Kat sent up a silent prayer of gratitude that Ben had warned her what had happened but it didn’t lessen the shock of the reality.

His speech was growing more slurred, too. Was that just because of the drugs he’d been on since he’d been admitted, or because of whatever was going on inside his head?

‘It’s because of your headaches, sunshine,’ she invented swiftly. ‘They’re hoping it will help them to go away until they can finish all their tests.’

‘Does that mean I won’t be able to watch any television?’ he demanded, this time in horror. ‘Or read my Harry Potter?’

‘But, Sam, when your headache’s bad, you don’t like the noise of the television,’ she began reasonably, abandoning that tack when she saw a mulish look curve the corners of his mouth downwards. ‘Anyway, when it’s not so bad, I could read Harry to you, couldn’t I?’

He pondered the suggestion for a moment and she held her breath. He’d been so proud of the fact that he’d progressed enough to read the books by himself that she was worried that he might feel that she was treating him like a baby again, having to be read to.

‘Would you do all the voices, like you did for the first books when Josh was learning to read?’ he bargained, with a lightening of his expression.

‘Is there any other way to read Harry Potter?’ she teased, giving his hand a squeeze even as she desperately wanted to wrap him in her arms and protect him from the world. He looked so pale and it was frightening what strength of analgesia it was taking to dull the pain of his headaches. If she didn’t find out soon what was causing this misery, she was going to…

‘Dr Leeman?’ called a soft voice from the doorway and she looked across to see the young registrar beckoning to her.

‘I’ll be back in a minute,’ she promised Sam, daring to brush the lightest of kisses over his childishly smooth brow even as a huge lump of terror lodged under her heart. The young man hadn’t had enough experience yet to keep his thoughts out of the expression on his face. She already knew that the news she was about to hear wasn’t good.

‘You try to have a sleep, sunshine, and when I come back, I’ll read the next chapter to you,’ she suggested, feeling as if her heart was breaking. She couldn’t lose Sam, too. She just couldn’t bear it. He was so precious…a perfect mixture of the best of both of his parents who deserved to have a long and happy life. Not…

‘OK,’ Sam agreed drowsily, gradually losing his fight against the latest dose of analgesia. ‘See you in a minute…’

Kat found herself tiptoeing out of the room, although she knew that it would probably be several hours before the drugs wore off enough for the pain to rouse him again.

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