His Perfect Bride? by Louisa Heaton

Author:Louisa Heaton
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Harlequin Medical Romance
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-05-03T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

IT WAS A LONG wait at the hospital. For the second time in two days, Lula sat by a patient’s bedside, watching her sleep.

Ruby’s mother had arrived—frantic, weeping, shaking with relief—and she and the young girl had had a tearful reunion. Ruby was physically all right, thankfully. No retained placenta, normal blood loss and she’d been slowly warmed up. Then the nurses had asked if Ruby had wanted to see her baby.

Ruby hadn’t known how to answer, but her mother had answered for her. Yes, they wanted to see the baby—because Ruby’s mother wanted to know if they could bring her grandchild home.

That had made Lula cry. It might have been a tragic story, Ruby and her baby. It might have had a disastrous ending. But it hadn’t. The family was being reunited. As Lula had hoped all along. It hadn’t happened in time for her. No one had found or tracked down EL from Atlee Wold for her. There’d been no desperate search in the snow for her.

Lula had remained alone. And then ill and alone. Until the Chance family had come along and offered her home comforts and love. She’d been grateful to them, but she had always known she didn’t belong. That she wasn’t one of them. That it wasn’t her real family. And that yearning for actual roots, for actual blood relations, had burned her deep inside.

Olly hadn’t had a mother, either. Was that why he was looking for perfection? Was that why he kept everything safe and normal? So that he didn’t have to feel different from everyone else?

Because that was how not having a mother had felt to Lula.

Being on the outside, always looking in, had given her a tendency to keep away from people. When had she ever got involved with anyone? Deeply enough for it to hurt when it was over?

Just once.

But there was something different about being in Atlee Wold. The people, the community feeling… It was hard to describe, but Lula felt at home here. As if she was in the right place. She knew her mother was here. Maybe even her father? Who knew? And the urge to stay was strong, even though she knew the chances that her mother wouldn’t welcome her with open arms could be strong. What if her mother wouldn’t acknowledge her? Wanted nothing to do with her?

Well, that would hurt, but I’d cope with it.

Lula knew that if she was to stay strong then no matter how the search ended she’d have to walk away. Give her mother space. Give herself space and time to reflect. She’d have to put miles between them so as not to come on too strong and demand more from her mother than her mother was able to give. To build their relationship slowly if there was a chance of one.

Perhaps her mother had yearned for her over the years? It was possible, wasn’t it?

I do hope so.

And the chance to learn about the choices her mother had made would give Lula some closure, too.

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