The Baby of Their Dreams (Contemporary Medical Romance)

Author:Carol Marinelli [Marinelli, Carol]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, Romance, Fiction, Medical, Past, Painful, Baby Boy, Deceased, Doctor, E.R. Doctor, Pregnant, Widower, Family Life, Miracle Baby, Marriage, Healing, Adult, Trauma, Heartbroken
ISBN: 9781460389638
Google: F5l7BwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Harlequin Medical Romances
Published: 2015-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

DOMINIC’S PARENTS WERE, though initially surprised, completely delighted with the news.

There was too much wine drunk and they spoke late into the night, and they kept making the most ridiculous suggestions.

‘Why don’t you bring her here so we can get to know her and she can have a little holiday?’

‘She’s thirty weeks pregnant,’ Dominic said, and looked over at Kelly for some help.

‘Mum, they’re not a couple,’ his sister said.

‘Perhaps, but I’d still like to meet her. We could come over.’ His mother, Anna, was warming to the idea. ‘We could fly over for the birth. I’d love to see my granddaughter being born.’

Dominic swore under his breath before answering. ‘I don’t even know if I’m going to be present at the birth...’

‘You could film it,’ Anna said. ‘Live-stream it.’

‘And then you could set it to music and forward it to your hippy friends...’ Dominic sarcastically responded, and when his father nodded this time Dominic swore out loud. ‘You weren’t even there when we...’ he gestured to Kelly ‘...were born.’

‘And I regret it to this day,’ James said. ‘That’s the beauty of being a grandparent, you get to do things right the second time around.’

What planet were they from? Dominic wondered.

Even if they made him laugh, they drove him mad at times, and this was one of those times. He could only imagine how well that suggestion would go down with the cool and rather distant Cat.

Yes, they made him laugh, because he was doing that now as he pictured her shocked expression as he told her he wanted to film the birth.

‘Cat and I are going to sort things out between us.’ Dominic told his parents how it would be. ‘Preferably without lawyers. You guys need to stay back.’

‘From our grandchild?’

He closed his eyes for a brief moment. He’d never considered having a baby but now that he was he wanted his parents in his child’s life, so he thought long and hard before answering.

‘From Cat and me,’ he said. ‘We’ve got two months to work things out. You’re to stay out of things.’

Anna didn’t answer. In fact, Dominic was sure she shook her head.

After his parents had gone to bed, he sat, listening to the trickle from the pool filter and enjoying sitting with his sister outside. It was cool and they had the gas heaters on but after a cold Scottish winter it was blissful.

‘I love it here,’ Dominic said.

‘Would Cat?’

‘Oh, we are so far from that, Kelly,’ he said. ‘It was a one-night stand, a weekend conference...’

‘That’s completely changed your life,’ Kelly said. ‘You were all set to move here.’

‘I was almost all set,’ he said.

‘Almost?’

‘I don’t want to talk about it.’

He didn’t.

He didn’t want to tell his sister that, despite the seriousness of his plans, since August they had started to change. Unable to get that night out of his mind, and furious at how the weekend had ended, he had considered calling Cat to explain things. And if he was thinking

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