Bride at Bay Hospital by Meredith Webber

Author:Meredith Webber
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises
Published: 2013-07-08T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

‘I’M TAKING you out to dinner tonight. We need to talk.’

Meg, showered and clad in clean jeans and a T-shirt which were the only spare clothes in her locker, looked up at the belligerent man who stood just inside her doorway. The blue scrub shirt, like the sky had earlier, made his eyes seem bluer, a distracting thought she really didn’t need right now.

Especially as her body warmed with remembered love-making—remembered delights she didn’t want to think about.

But she supposed they did have to talk if they were to continue working together in anything other than a state of tense truce. They could hardly ignore what had happened between them that afternoon. Though that didn’t mean she had to take orders from him.

‘You could ask nicely,’ she suggested, and saw anger spark in his eyes before he realised just how his demand had sounded.

Then he smiled.

‘OK,’ he agreed. ‘Please, Meg, will you have dinner with me tonight? Where’s a good place to eat? What about Lumiere? Is it still operating down by the beach?’

She hid her own smile as she said, ‘That would have worked better if you’d waited for my answer before asking about venues but, yes, Lumiere is still operating and still serving the best food in town.’

‘Get taken there a lot, do you?’ he said, and although he smiled to pretend he was just teasing, Meg wasn’t sure.

She wasn’t sure about anything right now.

He couldn’t possibly be jealous—so why say it?

She couldn’t ask because he’d disappeared again, so she contented herself with a low growl of dissatisfaction at the whole situation.

Back to work! She lifted the phone and rang the regional hospital to enquire about the patients from the island. The third man, Ian Thomson, was being prepared for an airlift to Brisbane, the local surgeons doubting they could save his arm, but Joe was currently in Theatre and the big man, Harold Harvey, transported there by ambulance at his own insistence after being examined at the Bay, was resting, though not, the nurse told Meg, quietly.

‘Glad he’s yours, not mine,’ Meg said to her, and the man on the other end of the phone chuckled.

She tried to concentrate on the letters and files that had piled up in her absence. Wednesday was the one day of the week she always spent on office work, and even on Wednesdays when she hadn’t been called for rescue duty, she rarely finished all she had to do on time. So it was close to seven when Sam gave a perfunctory knock and came in.

‘We’re going out to dinner,’ he reminded her.

She was nearly finished the next fortnight’s rosters so she nodded without looking up.

‘Your car’s not in the car park.’

‘My car wouldn’t start so I walked to work.’

‘You could have asked me for a lift.’

Meg lifted her head and looked at him. The physical pleasure they’d shared should have brought them closer—or at least eased the quivering sexual tension that had been simmering between them. But that part, as far as Meg was concerned, had grown stronger.

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