Bachelor's Wife by Jessica Steele

Author:Jessica Steele [Steele, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: General, Fiction
ISBN: 9780373024513
Google: yNdd2oKLNKQC
Amazon: 0373024517
Publisher: Harlequin Books
Published: 1981-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

THE pain in her head as her eyelids fluttered open and she regained consciousness made Perry aware all was not well before the cotton wool in her brain cleared sufficiently to make her realise the bed she was in was not her own. She was in hospital.

She coughed and stifled a groan as a pain in the region of her ribs told her something was amiss in that area too, Bread, she thought, trying to recall how she had got to be in hospital. All she could remember was that Mrs Foster wanted a loaf of bread. What had happened after talking with her in the hall, she had no idea.

Needing someone to tell her how she got to be where she was, she turned her head, wincing as a spear of pain came sharper than the bearable dull throb, and closed her eyes briefly before observing, on opening them again, that there wasn't a patient in the next bed simply because there was no next bed. Gritting her teeth against further spasms of pain, she turned her head in the other direction, to see there was no bed there either. She had a room to herself.

Perhaps I'm dreaming, she thought, cotton wool wanting to take over her brain again. But if the aches in her body were anything to go by it was a pretty rotten dream. Sleep wanted to claim her, but she fought it as panic began to take a foothold. She wasn't dreaming, she knew she wasn't, and what was more, she couldn't afford a private room. What were they thinking of putting her in here?

A sound like the crash of dustbin lids in her pain-ridden head had her wincing afresh as a door she couldn't see without turning and inflicting more pain opened somewhere

behind her head.

'Good, you're back with us,' said a gentle female voice which made itself known in the shape of a mousy-haired, white-capped nurse bending over her. 'I know it hurts like crazy,' the nurse went on, efficiently popping a thermometer under Perry's tongue and taking her wrist in a cool hold while she took her pulse, 'but I'll get you something for it in a minute.'

Unable to voice any of the questions she was bursting with, with the thermometer in her mouth, Perry was forced to lie docilely while the nurse checked her general appearance before removing the temperature gauge from beneath her tongue and began writing down details on her chart.

'Nurse.' Perry found her voice weak, and not at all as strong as it should have sounded. 'What happened?'

The nurse didn't seem to think it unusual that she couldn't remember, and explained, 'It would appear you stepped off the pavement and came off second best in an argument with a taxi.' And while Perry wondered where she had been, what must she have been thinking about to have been so careless, Nurse Johns, as she later learned she was, quite without knowing it promptly stifled any further questions she

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