Free The Baby of Their Dreams (Contemporary Medical Romance) by Carol Marinelli

I’m going to accept that I have no real idea as to the disruption this small person is going to make to my life when
he
arrives.’ Cat waited for Gemma to comment but she didn’t. ‘I want to find out what I’m having.’
    ‘Well, then, it’s good that you’ve got an appointment to see me this evening.’
    ‘Gemma!’ Cat protested, because now that she had made up her mind, she wanted to know straight away. ‘Tell me.’
    ‘No, I won’t tell you here and I’m serious about that. We agreed that catch-ups were for friend talk and my office was for official baby talk...’
    ‘Fair enough,’ she grumbled.
    ‘And speaking as a friend and not a doctor, have you—’
    ‘I need to get back,’ Cat interrupted. She didn’t want to get into that conversation with Gemma
again
, and explain that she still hadn’t spoken with Dominic.
    She knew, though, that she needed to contact him.
    Tonight, she decided, she’d deal with it tonight but almost immediately she changed her mind.
    It was surely better to ring around hospitals during the day. It would sound far more professional to any of his colleagues than calling at night, and she certainly didn’t want to create gossip for him.
    Gemma started to head to Outpatients, where she was holding antenatal clinics all day, and Cat would be her last patient. ‘I’ll see you at five. Hopefully I shan’t be running late. Come and have dinner after,’ she suggested. ‘We might even make it in time to see the twins before they go down for the night.’
    ‘I’d love that. I honestly don’t know how you do it,’ Cat admitted. ‘Do you feel like you’re missing out?’
    ‘Sometimes.’ Gemma nodded. ‘I worry more, though, that they’re missing out on me and so I completely overcompensate when I do see them and rot up all of Nigel’s routines. I know I’m lucky, though. I don’t have to worry about them while I’m here and I can concentrate on work, knowing that they’re at home with their dad.’ She gave her friend a smile. ‘You need your own Nigel.’
    Cat smiled back but the thing was, she didn’t want her own Nigel.
    She wanted...Cat halted her thoughts right there. Dominic wasn’t the man she thought she had met. And even if he was, it was supposed to have been a one-night stand. He had said to her face that he didn’t want to be tied to any one person or place. She couldn’t really imagine his reaction when he found out that she was having his baby.
    She didn’t want his reaction.
    Cat slowed down her walking. There was a flutter of panic in her chest as she remembered her last pregnancy and the disappointment of Thomas’s father, the silent suggestion of blame for daring to mess up his perfect life.
    She didn’t want that for herself again and she couldn’t stand it for her baby.
    Yet she had to.
    She was tired of the guilt that came with putting it off and she decided that, bar an emergency coming into the department, she wasn’t leaving her office until she had found out where he was working and had contacted him.
    Did she tell him outright? Cat wondered.
    Suggest that they meet?
    So deep in her thoughts was she that at first she didn’t notice the tall suited man walking alongside Andrew.
    He noticed her, though.
    In fact, at first sight she barely looked pregnant.
    She was wearing a tight dress and high boots and looked somehow sexy and elegant but then she turned to speak with one of the nurses and he saw the tight, round swell of her stomach and, attempting a detached professional guess, he would put her at...
    Yes, there was something that they needed to discuss. That was why he was here after all.
    He watched as she turned from the conversation she was having and startled as she glanced towards him, but then she gave a small shake of her head and strode on.
    Then she looked over towards him again and he watched as not only did her face pale but she stood frozen to the spot.
    Frozen.
    For a foolish moment Cat considered darting into a