Hugh (Single Dads of Gaynor Beach Book 4) by Gabbi Grey

Author:Gabbi Grey [Grey, Gabbi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-07-19T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

OSCAR

Marilee no longer appeared to be struggling to breathe. Her coughs appeared to be lessening.

Melinda assured me repeatedly that she’d be fine. Marilee, of course, not the nurse. She also told me Hugh delivered a healthy seven-pound, six-ounce baby boy named Melvin who apparently was indignant at his abrupt arrival in the world. Something like less than eighteen minutes from water breaking to birth. Apparently that wasn’t a world record, but I was quite sure it had to be up there.

Patti’d labored for twenty-three hours before Marilee was born, tiny that she was—mother and daughter both. Pictures of Patti and her mother showed they were both petite. But while Patti’d inherited none of Hugh’s height, she had his eyes.

He wants to do a DNA test.

Of course he did. Leaving his millions to a virtual stranger because they had the same eyes might raise questions about his sanity. I didn’t know Wynn Cavannah, but he sounded like a smart lawyer. I was glad someone was watching out for Hugh’s interests.

In my heart, though, I knew.

Melinda checked all Marilee’s vitals again. “She’s doing great. Dr. Llewellyn will come by tomorrow night when she’s back from Seattle. She’ll likely discharge her then. I mean, you’ve got a doctor living with you. A hero doctor, no less.”

I offered a weak smile. A hero doctor who’d taken me out to dinner when we should’ve been home caring for my daughter.

Not fair.

Hadn’t Dr. Lam said symptoms could come on suddenly? And Marilee’d taken her meds. And Miss Agnes turned out to be a stellar babysitter.

The woman’d visited me shortly after Marilee was moved up here. Then she’d said her farewells and headed home. I tried to give her the money in my wallet—which admittedly wasn’t much—but she said we could settle up when we came home. When I cocked my head, she reminded me I had a dog at home. She said she’d go to our place to pick up Hemingway and his food and toys, and bring the big lug to her place. It’d help her decide if she was ready to take on another pooch.

Can it be that simple?

Maybe it can.

Then she said we’d figure out the next time she was going to babysit Marilee, whom she now considered her honorary granddaughter.

Sounded nice, but I was pretty sure I was never leaving Marilee alone with a stranger again. Even if the stranger was likely the most competent caregiver for a child in all of Gaynor Beach.

I touched Marilee’s hand. Reassuringly warm.

Melinda’d brought a cot, but I couldn’t imagine sleeping. I was terrified that if I wasn’t watching Marilee’s chest rise and fall with every breath, she might die. Ridiculous since she was hooked up to all these monitors.

Still, I couldn’t banish the image of Patti lying dead on her bed. Had that truly been just over a week ago? Time was taking on a weird quality—sometimes it flew by, and other times it dragged. Hugh’d been in town all of three days and yet I knew, deep in my bones, that my life’d changed irrevocably.

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