The Baby Snatchers by Chris Taylor

Author:Chris Taylor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, romantic suspense, medical thriller, contemporary romance, romance series, australian romance, australian series
Publisher: Chris Taylor

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Dear Diary,

Every now and then, usually deep in the night, I wonder if I’ve made the right decision; if I’ve chosen the right path. It happens most often when one of the women stare at me with their sad, haunted eyes, mourning the loss of their child. It is then, I find it hard to sleep and I am plagued by uncertainty.

Most of the time, of course, I’m content with my choices and not even a thunderstorm raging outside my window can wake me. So many mothers battling crippling addictions. They have no place raising a child.

A child needs love and security, comforts only money can bring. These women are destitute, living off the streets, with no further thought but their next fix.

Yes, all things considered, I’ve made the right decision. Of that, I’m…mostly certain…

* * *

Georgie pressed the stethoscope against the chest of the tiny baby who lay in the hospital crib. She counted his heartbeats. With his pulse still fast and erratic and his body jerking spasmodically—even in his sleep—the poor little thing continued to show signs he was suffering acute withdrawal from methamphetamines. His mom was passed out in her bed, sleeping off her own enforced meth withdrawal. She’d barely spent twenty minutes with her son over the course of Georgie’s eight-hour shift.

Her heart broke at the thought of the baby who was, as yet, oblivious to the hardships he’d be forced to endure from the moment he and his mom left the safety and security of the post-natal ward. The likelihood of developmental delays and learning difficulties and the fact his mother lived on the streets and seemed totally uninterested in seeking help or improving her circumstances—for either her, or her son—all pointed to a bleak future. Georgie had already put in a call to FACS, but as yet, she hadn’t seen a staff member on the ward. It was the same old, depressing story.

Usually, when she pondered the hopelessness of it all, it got her down, but today, nothing could take the glow off her memories of the evening she’d spent with Cam. Except the part where he’d talked about his adoptive parents and birth mother.

It was obvious from the anger and bitterness in his voice that he had major issues regarding his adoption. The knowledge unsettled her. He thought his birth mother didn’t care enough about him to keep him. Is that how her son felt about the mother he’d never met?

Until then, the night had been like something out of a fairytale. Their conversation around the dinner table had been warm and spontaneous, with none of the uncomfortable silences she usually experienced when she dined with a man she barely knew.

Granted, Cynthia had been present for most of the time, but Cam’s little sister had seemed content to sit and eat and listen to the conversation flow around her and had only made the occasional contribution. It was Cam who made it easy. He had a natural grace and charm that Georgie had initially mistaken for arrogance.

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