A Forever Family for the Army Doc by Meredith Webber

Author:Meredith Webber
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarlequinUKLtd
Published: 2017-05-21T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

MAC WATCHED HER disappear out the door and wondered about attraction. Why one woman and not another?

He looked at the curling edge of the sandwich and decided she’d been right—it wasn’t worth eating. Dumping it and the empty can in the bin, he picked up the ED admissions book, looking back through the pages, seeing more than one night a week when they had no patients at all.

Had he brought the rush of emergencies to this small town?

That was nearly as ridiculous a thought as the attraction one he’d had earlier!

But forcing himself to focus—so as not to think about the other matter—he could see that this time of the day was always quiet. Patients, it seemed, came into the ED late afternoon, three to five, then the numbers dropped off until six-thirty when another trickle might arrive.

With the news about Rhia spreading, tonight’s trickle would more likely be a flood.

‘Will we have extra staff on this evening in case the people Belle phoned start coming in?’ he asked Izzy, who was coming through the door with her cup of tea.

‘Yes, we will,’ a voice that wasn’t Izzy’s answered, and he realised Roger was right behind her. ‘But I mean “we”, not “you”. Time the pair of you were off. The hospital can’t afford overtime, you know.’ He smiled, then added, ‘Well, not the amount of overtime you’ve racked up over the weekend. Izzy doesn’t count as she wasn’t even on duty so how could she possibly claim overtime?’

As a nurse Mac had met, but whose name he couldn’t remember, had followed Roger into the room, it was hard to argue.

‘I’m happy to leave you to it,’ Mac said, then turned to Izzy. ‘And as I’ve just thrown my lunch into the bin and I know you haven’t eaten, how about we duck into town for an early dinner at that Thai restaurant you mentioned? I’ve a few things to go over with Roger, so you’d have time to slip home and change.’

He hesitated, then added, ‘Nikki might like to come, too—save you having to feed her.’

Was it nothing more than a friendly gesture, or was it a test? Izzy wondered. She’d told him she hadn’t dated because she didn’t want men coming in and out of Nikki’s life, so asking Nikki made it just a casual dinner.

Didn’t it?

And asking in front of other staff, that was casual, too—or had he done that to make it hard for her to refuse?

‘Go and change, the man said.’ Roger’s voice broke into her muddled thoughts. ‘No one in their right mind wants to be seen eating in town with someone in that appalling uniform.’

‘It’s practical and not that appalling!’ She automatically defended the uniform Hallie had chosen, although Izzy had never yet met anyone it suited.

‘Just go!’ Roger ordered, and she went.

Befuddled, that was what she was.

And tired now the let-down after a busy day was seeping into her body.

Better tiredness than the things she felt when she was with Mac.

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