The Texan's Baby Bombshell by Allison Leigh

Author:Allison Leigh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-03-05T18:31:18+00:00

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Three hours later, Adam finally remembered to call Dr. Granger. Explaining the situation to her meant confessing a few more details than he’d offered in Seattle. Namely the way that Laurel had actually given up her child.

The connecting doors were open between his room and Laurel’s. He stood in the doorway between, his cell phone at his ear while the doctor talked.

Laurel was lying on the bed closest to the window. She was fully dressed but had still piled the covers up to her chin.

Adam couldn’t tell if she was asleep or not.

He figured not was more likely.

“It’s unfortunate that Laurel discovered something like that the way she did,” Dr. Granger was saying. She’d already given him what-for for not having been more forthright before. “Given the situation, I wouldn’t classify her reaction as entirely excessive. As long as she doesn’t exhibit increased signs of anxiety or depression, I think you should continue with your plans. The alternative would be to return to Seattle. Not here at Fresh Pine—the need for our services is too high and we’ve already filled her place here—but the shelter we’d found for her might be able to still accommodate—”

“She’d never agree.” Adam knew that much.

“As sudden as it was, Laurel now seems highly motivated to regain her life,” Dr. Granger said. “Or, at the very least, to find a new place for herself within that life. Progress rarely occurs without growing pains. But it is still progress.”

Adam was hard-pressed to classify what had happened as progress. Nightmarish, more like. What would Laurel do when she learned the truth about everything else?

“Nevertheless, it’s important not to place too much pressure on her.”

“Easy to say,” he muttered.

“Not so easy to do,” Dr. Granger finished sympathetically. “I can authorize a mild antianxiety—”

“She doesn’t want drugs, remember?”

“I was thinking more about you,” the doctor said wryly.

He stepped out of the doorway and into his own room, though he left the connecting doors fully open. “Think I’ll manage,” he told the doctor. “Sorry to disturb you.”

“I told you. Call me whenever you need. Laurel is a special girl. She’s lucky to have someone who loves her as much as you do.”

Adam jerked. “I’m just an old—”

“Friend?” Dr. Granger laughed skeptically. “We should all have old friends who care so deeply,” she said before disconnecting.

Adam tossed his phone on the bed and rubbed his face.

Caring about Laurel had never been the problem.

Keeping her had.

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