A Date with Dr. Moustakas by Amy Ruttan

Author:Amy Ruttan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-04-06T18:33:19+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

CHRIS WAS UNUSUALLY quiet the next morning, when they met at the clinic to do an emergency surgery on a patient who was having a gallbladder attack. Not that Naomi could blame him. Things had not gone well with his father the night before.

This was the Chris she remembered from when things had ended between them in Nashville, just before he’d left for Manhattan and hadn’t looked back. This quiet, brooding, cold man who had broken her heart. The man she’d almost thrown it all away for.

Although according to Nikos Moustakas, Chris had looked back and regretted it...

Still, Chris hadn’t ever said the words, and she wasn’t going to pursue it. What was the point? It was ancient history now.

They stood in the small scrub room side by side as their patient was taken away to the post-anesthesia care unit.

“You did good in there,” Chris remarked. “I haven’t seen a gallstone that big in so long—although, granted, it’s been a while since I’ve assisted in a cholecystectomy. I’m not usually called on to assist a general surgeon.”

“Thank you,” she said. “I’m glad I was able to help. It just sucks that the patient was so close to rupture. She’d probably been feeling ill for months. She said something about how she thought it was due to the untreated water she’d been drinking after the earthquake. She thought that was making her sick.”

“The earthquake did damage the water pipes here, and Mythelios didn’t have clean treated water for some time.”

“Terrible—what a tragedy. We take things for granted, thinking we’ll always have them, until they’re gone,” she said. “Still, it could have been a lot worse. Her gallbladder could’ve ruptured, or she could’ve got pancreatitis—both deadly. At least your clinic was here to help.”

Chris didn’t say anything. He just continued to brood. She knew he was thinking of how his father felt about the clinic.

“Don’t let your father get into your head. Investing in this clinic was the right thing to do. It has saved lives. Many more people would’ve been lost if it hadn’t been here.”

“I know that,” he snapped. “My father is such a pain in my ass. He doesn’t see the value in anything unless it makes him money. He married my mother because she came from a wealthy family. I doubt he loved her.”

“I don’t know about that,” Naomi said, and then she was embarrassed that she’d let that slip.

She didn’t want to get involved in his life again, but, inexorably, she was. She was being drawn in slowly but surely, and she had to put a stop to it.

“What’re you talking about?”

“I think he may have loved her in the only way he knew how, and maybe he was hurt because she didn’t love him back. You said so yourself—your mother left and now she lives in Corfu and wants nothing to do with either of you.”

Chris nodded. “That is true.”

“You two are so alike. So stubborn.”

He shot her a look that was meant to convey the fact that she was crazy.

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