Chasing Hope: A Small Town Second Chance Romance (Harper Family Series Book 2) by Nancy Stopper

Author:Nancy Stopper [Stopper, Nancy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Anderby Lane Publishing
Published: 2018-06-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Six

Maddie fidgeted in her chair while Dr. Bryson sorted through papers on her desk. After locating what Maddie assumed was her file, Dr. Bryson snatched a notepad off the corner and rounded the desk, sitting in the chair beside Maddie. Having the doctor so close, able to see what she was thinking and feeling, both comforted her and increased her nervousness at the same time.

“How have things been going recently, Maddie?”

As much as she had expected the question, her mind still raced. It hadn’t been all that long since her last appointment., but the changes she’d made proved what she could do when she put her mind to it and dug herself out of the funk that had consumed her for so long. “Oh my gosh, there is so much that I can’t even think of it all. Justin and I have been working together on what we’re calling Sports Day. It’s designed to get the families of Cedar Hill and the surrounding areas out to the park and introduce what Justin’s store has to offer them. It’s been really good contributing to the business. I hadn’t known that I was missing flexing my creative muscles until I dove in again. I love being creative and coming up with ideas and, most of all, brainstorming with Justin.”

“That’s great. What a wonderful opportunity for you and Justin to rediscover what works so well between you. I mean, you wouldn’t have gotten married in the first place if you didn’t have that kind of connection.”

“You’re right. Justin is also spending more time with us as a family. He’s coming over for dinner, playing with Aiden, and we even went to the Crabapple Festival together last weekend. It had been a long time since we’d done something like that together. It felt… good. And I saw families with babies and a few pregnant women and I didn’t cry or break down like I had in the past.”

Dr. Bryson scribbled on her pad. Was she noting all the good things happening in Maddie’s life or was she thinking about what Maddie wasn’t saying? What Maddie was hoping didn’t come up today. She stopped herself. Not talking about the hard topics was what had gotten Maddie and Justin into trouble in the first place.

And keeping information from Dr. Bryson would do her no good, so she continued. “I’m not sure I mentioned last time, but a few weeks back, we went to an event at my sister-in-law Serena’s animal shelter. There were kids from a nearby group home there, visiting with the animals.”

“How did you respond to being with those kids who were looking for parents as much as you are hoping for another child?”

Funny how the doctor put her question, because that was exactly how Maddie had seen the situation. “That day, I struggled a bit. The director, Wanda, told me a horrible story of a little girl who had been put in foster care because her mother was caught up in drugs. Eventually her mother died and left the little girl an orphan.

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