A Summer Wedding For the Cornish Midwife by Jo Bartlett

Author:Jo Bartlett [Bartlett, Jo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Boldwood Books

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Anna set down the tray of hot drinks on the desk. Toni was in one of the delivery suites, assisted by Bobby, supporting a second-time mum-to-be whose labour appeared to be going perfectly to plan. Gwen was out doing home visits, which left Anna, Ella and Jess in the staffroom. Anna was running a clinic that was due to start in less than twenty minutes. It meant she had just enough time to grab a drink with the others, assuming no one came into the unit with an emergency, or because they’d gone into labour.

‘What’s on the menu for the wedding breakfast, then?’ Ella took the tea that Anna passed her.

‘We’re going for pan-fried hake, smoked hock of ham, or wild garlic mushrooms for the first course, then topside of beef, slow-roast pork belly, or spinach ravioli for the main course, and there are three or four dessert courses, all served with either Cornish ice cream or clotted cream, of course!’ Anna’s stomach grumbled as she reeled off the list. She’d burned the porridge she’d made for breakfast, too distracted by an email from the hotel to even notice the smell of scorched oats and milk until it was too late. She’d never have pictured herself as the sort of person who got so fixated by the small details, but planning the wedding was definitely taking over of late and it was just one more reminder of how much she missed her mum.

‘Were the choices all down to Brae, or did you get back to the hotel in time in the end?’ Ella broke a chocolate digestive in half, dunking it into her tea.

‘Once the sonographer at the Early Pregnancy Unit told Miranda everything looked okay, I dropped her home with her husband and went back to the hotel. Poor old Brae had been manning the stall all afternoon, and he’d almost filled the order book by the time I got there. So he’s got a backup plan if the fish and chip shop ever goes belly up!’

‘You know when someone says: “so and so is the salt of the earth, they’d do anything for anyone”, they really are talking about you and Brae.’ Jess smiled. ‘Dom probably wouldn’t have given up his Saturday afternoon rugby, even if I’d been the one having a pregnancy scan, let alone him doing it for a total stranger.’

‘Is he still messaging you?’ Jess had confided in Anna that there’d been a lot more messages from Dom since she’d decided to foster and she had a horrible feeling it was contributing to Jess’s wobbles about the whole thing.

‘I think he must have split up with that girl from work and he seems to think there’s still a chance for us.’

‘And is there?’ Ella took the words out of Anna’s mouth.

‘No…’ Jess hesitated for a moment. ‘I miss him sometimes, but I don’t know if that’s because I actually miss him, or whether it’s the whole package of his family that I miss. His mum

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