The Nurse's Pregnancy Miracle by Ann Mcintosh

Author:Ann Mcintosh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-06-07T18:29:46+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

“PINK EYE?” NYCHELLE plopped down onto her kitchen stool. “MJ has pink eye?”

“Can you dig it?” Martin sounded harassed and annoyed. “Woke up with it this morning—on the first day of summer vacation, to boot.”

“Oh, no. What about Leighann?”

“So far, so good, and we’re doing everything we can to stop her from contracting it. Jennifer’s been running around with antiseptic wipes all morning. Martin Tremaine Girvan Junior!” Martin suddenly shouted, the bellow only slightly muffled by what Nychelle suspected was him pointing the phone at his son. “Do. Not. Scratch. Your. Eye. Mom will be back in a minute with some drops to make it stop itching.”

Nychelle chuckled, suppressing it when he said, “He’s driving us crazy—alternately whining, rubbing his eye, and threatening to infect his sister. We’re supposed to be going on vacation in ten days, but if Leighann gets it we may have to cancel.”

“Hopefully that won’t happen.”

“From your lips to God’s ear,” Martin grumbled. “Just coordinating a vacation with our schedules is hard enough. And, speaking of canceling, I was planning to take you and David out on the boat today, but I can’t risk taking MJ anywhere. Not fair to leave Jen here to suffer by herself either.”

Nychelle stared out the window, biting her lip as a combination of disappointment and relief swirled through her. “Well, it can’t be helped. Taking care of your family is the most important thing. We’ll go out another time.”

“I don’t want to disappoint David.”

There were a few more moments of muffled shouting, and Nychelle figured the phone was clasped to her cousin’s chest this time, so she wouldn’t hear the threats he was making to his son.

“Sorry about that. This boy is a menace.”

“He’s eight. What do you expect? At that age you were a pain too.”

“I was not.”

Nychelle chuckled at his lofty tone.

“I was a perfect little paragon. All right. All right.” He interrupted her laughter to get back to what he was saying. “We can’t go out on the boat, but I went ahead and bought two tickets for you guys to take the river taxi. It’ll be a good way for you to show David more of the city without having to think about parking.”

“I’m sure he won’t mind if you have to cancel—”

“I already talked to him and told him you were willing to go.”

“What? Without talking to me first?”

Martin obviously wasn’t listening to her. If he had been he surely would have heard the outrage in her voice and put even a hint of remorse into his reply. Instead, he just said, “I knew you wouldn’t mind. I’ll email you the tickets, and he’ll come to pick you up at ten.”

Nychelle clenched her teeth to hold back her instinctive refusal. Would she never get away from this man? Well, maybe that was too harsh. David was the one man she both craved and was afraid to be around. How many times had she decided it would be best to avoid him, only to end up in his presence almost immediately thereafter?

“It’ll be fun.

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