Chapter 485 Big Girls Don't Cry:>16

• "We have a home; this one! Weren't you listening? Dad gave us this house, we have somewhere to live, and as for jobs, have you even looked at local jobs, at vacancies here in the Bristol hospitals? There are at least eight hospitals here in Bristol quite apart from Frenchay, Southmead and the Royal Infirmary, and so many more in Somerset, have you applied to them? No, you only applied to London hospitals. Take a chance, Dar, please, for me, for you, for both of us. I'm ovulating in the next few days, I want to make my baby here, with you, in this house where we grew up with so much love!"
• She was right; I'd only applied to London hospitals, and only the bigger ones at that, hoping they'd select me from the hundreds of applicants they probably got for each surgical vacancy they advertised. Maybe I could do worse than be a doctor in my home town, perhaps I didn't need the prestige of working at one of the top London hospitals, plus, the thought of making babies with Lena appealed enormously; she was gorgeous, sexy, determined, and she believed in me, all evidence to the contrary. She'd chosen me to be the father of her baby; with her believing in me, perhaps that was all I needed to make it work.
• "Give me a couple of days, baby, I'll start making some calls, maybe I can scare up an interview, or maybe even a Locum spot somewhere, just something to get me into the system."