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‘So, the previous doctor told you that h oxygen flow?’

‘Yes Will that cure him?’ the woman choked out

‘It should help Caleb to breathe a little easier,’ explained Saskia ‘Are you here on your own? Is there anyone who can be with you?’

The woman shook her head

‘No one It’s just the two of us Caleb wasn’t planned, and when I found out I was pregnant, Toether for a year I didn’t expect hi But I didn’t think he’d leave us without a word’

‘I’m so sorry,’ Saskia offered, not sure what else to say ‘Well, we’re here for you and your son Try not to worry—the oxygen should help I’ll check on him in about an hour or so to make sure that it is, okay?’

‘Okay’

Saskia pulled the curtain out of the way and stepped out, confir on to check the next priority on her ward round

But her head was spinning

She’d spent the past week since she’d left Malachi’s apart she could to keep her mind off the man as the father of her unborn baby

She’d convinced herself that she’d e proposal, but now, after that revelation fro herself

Whatever else she could say about her and Malachi, she couldn’t say that he didn’t want to know about their baby They weren’t even a couple, yet he’d instantly expected to be part of their life Had practically insisted on it

Had she been thinking of her best interests or her unborn baby’s when she’d dise proposal so scornfully? It wasn’t as though they couldn’t stand each other In fact, quite the opposite

Without warning, i her—his hands, hisas though itevery tiht of him over the past few months