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How about a scoop of ice cream before you leave?”  \n“I’d rather taste something sweeter.”  \nHis breath brushed across the bridge of her nose and forced her own lungs to struggle in their simple task of moving air.“What would that be?” she managed to choke out in a hoarse voice.  \n“I’ll show you.”  \nHe pulled her close and took her mouth in one smooth action that left her reeling, as if a bolt of lightning had shot from head to toe. Then he stopped abruptly, but his hold didn’t slacken. For several long minutes he simply stared at her, his face wreathed in shadows as he waited silently.  \nShe hadn’t realized until that moment how hard it must have been for him to walk away a year ago, because refusing the unspoken question shining out of his eyes required a strength she didn’t possess. Perhaps he’d changed, as he’d said, and perhaps he hadn’t. But weren’t some things in life worth the risk?  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nDear Reader,  \nWelcome to my HOPE CITY series, where people find love as they pursue their dreams and aspirations.  \nThe idea for this series grew out of the knowledge that we’ve all entertained hopes at one time or another. So I wanted to create a town where my characters not only give hope to others through their profession, but, for various reasons, also cling to it themselves.  \nThe Baby Rescue is the second story, where the bond that grows between two people who care for a baby really proves how important trust and dependability are in any relationship. Look for some of Hope City Hospital’s other doctors—Mark Cameron and Justin St. James—in future stories where the combination of medicine and romance gives the community its name.  \nHappy reading!  \nJessica Matthews  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nThe Baby Rescue Jessica Matthews  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCONTENTS  \nCHAPTER ONE  \nCHAPTER TWO  \nCHAPTER THREE  \nCHAPTER FOUR  \nCHAPTER FIVE  \nCHAPTER SIX  \nCHAPTER SEVEN  \nCHAPTER EIGHT  \nCHAPTER NINE  \nCHAPTER TEN  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCHAPTER ONE  \n“HAVING problems?”  \nBent over the restroom doorknob with a hairpin in the key slot, Nicole Lawrence stiffened at the sound of the familiar baritone. After learning that Galen Stafford was a staff ER physician here at Hope City Hospital during yesterday’s orientation tour, she’d been steeling herself for this moment when their awkward past would catch up to their equally awkward present.  \nSome might have considered it serendipitous for the two of them to land in the same hospital a year after they’d graduated from residency training, but Nikki did not. Of all the places she could have been sent to work, why did Galen have to be here?  \nIdly, she wondered if Emily Post or Miss Manners had ever covered the proper way to greet a man she’d once tried—and failed—to seduce.  \nShe only wished their first face-to-face encounter since they’d parted company hadn’t occurred at the exact moment her recalcitrant six-year-old patient had turned the restroom into his sanctuary. So much for proving her competence to a former fellow resident, even if he’d seen her in far worse situations than this.  \nBluffing her way through was her only choice. It wouldn’t be the first time she’d hidden something from him.  \nShe straightened slowly as she turned to meet his gaze. Although she’d tried to mentally prepare herself for this moment, the magnetism she’d felt when she’d first met him at St Luke’s Medical Center in what seemed a lifetime ago instantly pulled at her. For a split second she weakened and drank in his appearance, letting herself remember only the good times they’d shared.  \nThe love she’d felt for him, the love that she had been certain had withered over the past year, instantly stirred as if preparing to bloom. 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