Hot Docs On Call: Healing His Heart. Alison Roberts
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href="#udb64be07-6279-5191-936f-483d3ccd84c2"> CHAPTER FOUR
Karin Baine
A family for the bachelor doc?
Burns specialist Dr. Matthew McGrory is finally living the bachelor life after years of responsibility raising his siblings alone. But he can’t ignore the pull he feels toward beautiful Quinn Grady, foster mom to his favorite young patient.
Having learned the hard way that you can’t rely on other people, Quinn is uber-protective of little Simon, and her heart. But as Matthew’s hero status grows in the eyes of her young charge, she just might find he’s the hero she’s dreamed of, too…
This one’s for Jennie, Stephen and Samantha,
my London travelling companions/supervisors
because we all know I can’t be trusted out on
my own! Along with John, you’ve always been
so supportive of my writing and it’s much
appreciated xx. Thanks to Catherine,
Abbi and Chellie who’ve helped me
so much with my research.
QUINN GRADY WAS officially the worst mother in the world. Barely a week into the job and her charge was already lying in the hospital.
Simon mightn’t be her real son but that made her role as his foster mum even more important. As someone who’d been passed from pillar to post in the care system herself, it meant everything to her to provide a safe home for him. Yet here she was, sitting on her own in the bright corridors of the Paddington Children’s Hospital, nerves shredded, waiting for news on his condition.
She’d done everything by the parenting handbook, even when life had thrown her that ‘I’m not ready to be a dad’ curveball from Darryl right before Simon had come into her life. Her focus had remained on his welfare regardless of her own