Awakening the Shy Nurse by Alison Roberts

Author:Alison Roberts
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-01-08T15:22:41+00:00

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Lisa looked about as uncomfortable as she had the first time Hugh had ever seen her, first on the wharf in Barcelona when they both knew she’d been watching him kiss Carlotta and then when he’d met her in the medical centre and she’d known she would be working with him for the next couple of weeks.

But, until she realised he had brought her into his private, personal space, he’d been doing a good job of distracting her from the misery that he assumed was due to their unsuccessful resuscitation efforts this evening. He hadn’t seen her with tears in her eyes like that before and he suspected it would take something huge to make Lisa Phillips cry so it had induced an odd squeezing sensation in his chest that meant he had to try and fix things.

‘Ah...’ Hugh decided to ignore her embarrassment and act like it was no big deal that his cabin was messy and he hadn’t even made his bed properly. He walked towards the sitting room corner to open the balcony doors. That way, Lisa wouldn’t feel like she was trapped and it was a nice enough evening to sit out there if that helped. ‘I was saying that my solo honeymoon was the reason I took a job as a ship’s doctor. I had been about to take up a position in a general practice in the nice outer London suburb I’d grown up in. I was all set to settle down and move back into the family home and raise my two point four children—you know, the whole nine yards.’

Lisa was shaking her head. ‘You were really in love, weren’t you? It must have been absolutely devastating.’

‘Better to happen then than when those two and a bit kids were involved.’ Hugh kept his tone light. He also needed to change the subject because, like his privileged background, it was something he preferred not to talk about. To anyone. He had been devastated. He’d gone on board his first cruise ship feeling totally betrayed and crushed and, for some weird reason, he almost felt like telling Lisa every gruesome detail. Because he knew she would understand? That she would care?

‘Anyway...there was an incident on board. Or rather on shore. One of the passengers was riding a donkey on a Greek island and he fell off and dislocated his shoulder. I managed to get it relocated for him and used his clothes to splint it in place, got him back to the ship and then ended up helping to X-ray him to make sure it was all okay.’

Lisa had followed him towards the balcony but now she sat down on the edge of the couch as she listened to his story.

‘The doctor I was working with told me they were looking for new medical staff and it all came together. I didn’t have to settle in one place or start thinking about real estate or nursery schools. I didn’t need to get bored by turning up to the same place every day to do the same job.

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