A Weaver Holiday Homecoming by Allison Leigh

Author:Allison Leigh [Allison Leigh ]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781408901250
Publisher: Harlequin Mills & Boon Ltd.
Published: 2011-08-17T09:21:59+00:00

Chapter Ten

Mallory’s hand hovered over the telephone situated on the corner of Dan Yarnell’s oversize wood desk.

Should she call Ryan?

It was Wednesday afternoon. She hadn’t heard from him since Monday night.

Not that he’d said how quickly he’d arrange something with his parents and Chloe, but for some reason she’d expected to hear from him by now.

Some reason?

That was a laugh. She didn’t even have to close her eyes to summon up the memory of his face as he’d left her house the other night. The blue flame that had seemed to burn in his eyes when he’d looked at her.

A flame that had been a world away from any glimpse of grief.

I wasn’t in love with Cassie. His deep voice whispered through her thoughts.

Her fingers curled into her palm. She drew her hand away from the phone without touching it. Annoyed with herself, she added the lab results she’d been studying to the medical file she’d been making notes on, slapped the folder closed and took it with her out to the reception area. “Dee Crowder was the last patient for the day, right?” Mallory set the patient file for the pretty elementary school teacher on top of Nina’s rigidly organized desk.

Nina barely glanced up from her computer. “Do you have another appointment on your schedule?”

“Ah…no.” She forced a smile. With the possible exception of having to reschedule her appointments the day that Chloe had broken her arm, Mallory couldn’t think of any reason since she’d come to fill in for Dan that could have so thoroughly earned the woman’s dislike.

“Why don’t you cut out early,” she offered, since it was only the middle of the afternoon. A few extra hours were usually welcomed, particularly at this time of the year when everyone seemed frantic to find more time for the holidays.

But the gray eyes that Nina turned on her looked glacial. “Dr. Yarnell’s office is open until four o’clock every weekday.”

“Well.” Didn’t she feel told off? “If you change your mind, feel free to take off.” She let the matter drop and headed back to the office at the rear of the building.

Yarnell’s setup was pretty straightforward. Four examining rooms, two on each side of the hallway leading back to his office. And in front of it all, was Nina the guard-dragon.

Feeling uncharitable and not liking it, Mallory closed the door to the office and sat down again behind the wide desk that she still didn’t feel at home behind, despite the weeks she’d been there.

Ignoring the silent telephone, she picked up one of the framed photographs of Chloe that she’d positioned on the crowded credenza behind the desk and reminded herself that everything she’d done lately had been for her.

If it weren’t for Chloe, she’d still be back in New York, where she was just one of a half-dozen low men on the totem pole in a practice that boasted eight partners. She’d have a never-ending back-to-back stream of patients to fit into too little time, and she certainly wouldn’t end up with hours to spare.

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