Nick's Fortune

Mercedes Roberts was the recently appointed interim Chair of the Hospital’s Children’s Fundraising Committee, and she’d inherited one hell of a mess.Unfortunately it involved Nick Gerson. He enjoyed his sparring sessions with Mercedes; her measured response, both in pace and tone impressed him, because it was obvious from the look in her eyes that she found him overconfident and overbearing Nick first come into contact with the Carvalho family through Grace, when she’d married Luke’s best friend, Josh. At the time Nick was a brash teenager. A cynical youth. When Luke married Briar Carvalho, Nick's biological family remained the same dysfunctional mess that it had always been, but his adopted family, the Carvalho had changed him, showing him what love meant, and showing him how to be part of a family. But when Nick met Mercedes Roberts, daughter of the CEO of the Trust that ran Briar Carvalho's hospital, his mischievous streak appeared; he let Mercedes believe he was the hired help. Lightheartedly teasing her before he was found out. Odd in other ways, as he usually only teased the women in his immediate ‘family’ circle, mainly because he knew they could handle him, and because they teased him in return. It was not long before they discovered they were both engaged by Briar to prepare for the Children's fundraising committee.