A Miracle for the Baby Doctor by Meredith Webber

Author:Meredith Webber
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Medical Romances
Published: 2017-09-05T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

HE WAS GONE when she woke—in his bed—and confusion over what to do next fluttered like moths in her head.

Should she muss up the bed in her room?

Of course not, she’d made her own bed every morning she’d been here. Why was she even thinking this way?

To stop thinking about facing Steve in daylight?

That moth was bigger than the rest, and its sudden presence got her out of bed, gathering her clothes and fleeing into her own room, where she crawled into bed for comfort rather than deception.

But there was work to be done, and she was being pathetic.

Pulling the sheet over her head, she hid from the truth.

The truth that she had truly enjoyed their sexual encounter?

Where was restraint in that?

She thought about that restraint, the one that had shaped her thoughts and her decisions since childhood.

Because of the guilt she’d felt when her father had left them, certain for some peculiar childish reason it had been her fault? Because she’d trodden so carefully after that, perhaps subconsciously not wanting to lose her mother as well?

Nonsense! That was the past—gone so long ago it should be forgotten.

She was a mature woman and although, admittedly, she hadn’t considered it post-divorce, she was entitled to a love life. She bounded out and headed for the shower. Those moths were not going to spoil her memories of a wondrous night.

She was eating breakfast when Zoe arrived.

‘Steve still out on his run?’ she asked, a question that explained why he wasn’t around in the morning.

‘Must be,’ Fran replied, hoping she sounded more together than she felt.

But there was work to be done and she’d need her wits about her, so work!

Steve appeared, freshly showered, as she was walking to the lab.

‘Good morning, lovely lady,’ he said, with a smile that warmed her all over. ‘Can we check the red dishes? And the green ones? Forty-eight hours and we should be seeing some cell division on the reds and it’s probably late enough to see the pronuclei in the greens.’

Fran smiled at the enthusiasm in his voice, though she did wonder if he was feeling all the physical things she was feeling.

Like wanting to reach out and touch him, to move closer.

Work!

She couldn’t deny that Steve was passionate about his work but...

Then he did touch her, one finger tilting her chin so their eyes met.

‘Okay?’ he asked, and she knew her smile in reply was probably way too delighted but she couldn’t help it.

‘Very okay,’ she told him. ‘So, come with me while I check?’

Years of experience at ignoring any emotional highs or lows—mostly lows—made it easy to switch into work mode, although every nerve in her body was aware of Steve’s presence, and it took a great deal of strength to not accidentally brush against him.

Arthur was already in the lab and as he lifted the dishes from the incubator she slid them under the microscope, checking each one before stepping back so first Steve and then Arthur could see the progress.

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