CHAPTER 58
Ricky rubbed Jillian’s tense shoulders.
“I really can’t do this,” she sniffed while patting the baby’s back.
He glanced at the doorway, where soon the adoptive parents would come in to take her daughter away.
“There’s still time,” he whispered. Once they started officially dating, he’d gone with her to as many of the adoption counseling sessions as he could. He knew Washington state laws so well he could recite them.
“That’s not what I mean.”
One of the counselors had warned Ricky that Jillian would be hard to console after the delivery, a combination of the hormones plus the emotional roller coaster she’d chosen.
And Ricky had thought adoption was a simple solution.
He kissed the top of her head. “You’re doing such a good job,” he said. “And whatever you decide, you kno
