"Oh come on sis! Not you too! Of course I didn't cancel it! Do you know long I waited just to be considered? There's no way I am going to look like some deadbeat dad who can't even keep the first appointment!"
"Are you sure it's a good idea? It's not just YOU that you have to think of is it? I just want the best for my niece Andrew' his sister replied.
"Exactly! Which is why MY daughter and I will be seeing Dr Ghislaine. She's the absolute best in the field and no petty gossip changes that! I really don't give a damn what she does in her personal life, she has been nothing but professional with us..hasn't she sweetheart?"
The little one giggled in agreement as Jackie turned back to her magazine, a raised eyebrow and half smile on her lips...he knew too well that look and today he simply did not have time to listen to the latest wild rumours about town, especially about Dr Ghislaine.
Dr Ghislaine had been the topic of discussion ever since she'd opened the Adoption agency. He could never understand why people seemed so sure that she had some kind of dark secret.
Typical small town really, add a sophisticated, intelligent, successful female and of course all manner of crazy stories would be whispered over fences or at the school gate.
He'd heard so many tall tales it was farcical.....Dr Ghislaine was heiress to a fortune....Dr Ghislaine had mob connections, she was a cocaine smuggler, that she held orgies....that she was a spy! So unfair when she was such a passionate advocate for child welfare. Not only that, she had achieved what no other could.....to gift a single man like him with a daughter!
He could never have guessed that behind her polished facade hid a dark and manipulative creature with an appetite for daddy/daughter mind games.
