Bundle of Trouble by Fiona Lowe

Author:Fiona Lowe [Lowe, Fiona]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781472003416
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Amazon: B00EJNG5SU
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Published: 2013-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

CALLIE STARED AT the baby in front of her. He’d just been admitted and she’d finished examining him but was pulling blanks on his diagnosis. She liked to have some clues before ordering rafts of tests but today she was struggling.

‘That’s a really big frown for a pretty face, Dr Richards.’

A rush of heat stormed through her and she didn’t need to look up to know exactly who was standing next to her. The man was sex on a stick and oozed charisma. As much as Callie had tried to tune out the hospital gossip, it was impossible because every second nurse and every third intern, irrespective of his or her gender, was trying to date the man.

Be cool, be calm, be detached, and at all costs be witty. ‘Ah, the ever-charming Dr Coleman.’ That’s not witty. ‘How are things?’

He smiled his easy smile—the one that lit up his face and lit up Callie. ‘Things are good,’ he said in his sexy American drawl. ‘Better than you, I think.’ He inclined his head towards the baby. ‘Problems?’

‘Yes.’ She met his gaze and beyond the ever-present charm she detected professional concern for her little patient and a genuine interest.

Run the symptoms past him. He might be able to help.

Talking to Cade about the baby would also help her in her campaign of thinking of him only in terms of a fellow doctor—her current campaign to maintain precious distance. ‘Would you mind talking through his history with me, please? I’m missing something.’

‘Happy to.’ He tilted his head, all professional attention. ‘Shoot.’

Years of well-honed skills came to the fore. ‘Baby Nicols, born at term and abandoned. Mother unknown. He’s been in foster-care for four weeks but is irritable and failing to gain weight.’

‘Drug screen results at birth?’ Cade asked, as his high forehead creased in concentration.

‘Not done.’

His brown brows rose sharply and if he’d wanted to blurt out, ‘That would never happen in the States,’ he managed to stifle it.

Callie couldn’t get all parochial or take offence at his expression because she’d been horrified herself when she’d found out the tests hadn’t been carried out. ‘I know it’s supposed to be standard procedure when the patient’s history isn’t known, but the baby was born in the outback and examined in a tiny clinic. He appeared healthy at birth and, given the lack of medical infrastructure, everything stopped at a routine exam, despite the fact that he’s not the most attractive baby on the planet—’

‘Oh, I don’t know.’ Cade smiled his hypnotic smile. ‘I’ve seen stranger-looking kids, that’s for sure. So how’s he ended up here on the glittering Gold Coast?’ He stroked his finger along the baby’s forehead.

Callie stared at the action, trying to align the inveterate playboy with a man who was so gentle and caring with children.

‘Callie?’

She quivered at the way his accent rolled over her name and was immediately horrified that her body had done that, let alone the fact she’d allowed her thoughts to be sidetracked. ‘Um, the foster-mother’s visiting her sister.

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