City Surgeon, Small Town Miracle by Marion Lennox

Author:Marion Lennox
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Romance & Sagas, General, Fiction
ISBN: 9780263878783
Publisher: Harlequin Mills & Boon, Limited
Published: 2010-04-15T15:03:51.613000+00:00

It seemed, as he’d predicted, an endless day, and at the end of it, when everyone had gone, when the last neighbour had wrung the last bit of nostalgia from the occasion, Max drove her back to the farm.

It was still raining. They drove along the long line of tractors and Maggie felt herself trying to work out a way she could make him stay longer.

That wasn’t fair. She knew it. But…

‘Would you like to come in and have dinner?’ she asked as they pulled to a halt. ‘Margaret’s cooking for me as well tonight. I…I’m sure there’ll be enough to share.’

‘She already asked me,’ he said gently. ‘I refused.’

‘Oh.’

His face grew suddenly grim. ‘Maggie, I don’t think I can ever go down the road I went with Alice. I can’t get involved again.’

Well, that was blunt to say the least. ‘Involved?’ she said cautiously.

‘I think we both know what I mean.’

Whoa. Suddenly things were going where they had no right to be going. At least he was being direct, but…

‘You’re thinking I’m on the catch for another husband,’ she whispered, and suddenly anger was there, surging whether she willed it or not. She did will it.

He thought she was a victim, she thought suddenly, incensed by the knowledge. A passive, needy woman who might cling. A woman who’d kissed him the last time they’d met, whether he’d willed it or not, and he probably hadn’t willed it; he was probably just being kind. To a sex-starved widow, seven months pregnant with another man’s child.

‘I don’t think that,’ he started.

‘Just as well,’ she retorted. ‘So what about Fiona?’

‘Fiona?’

‘Your girlfriend.’

‘Fiona is my colleague. I don’t have a girlfriend. There’s been no one since Alice.’

‘How very noble,’ she snapped. ‘I hope Alice is up there polishing your halo, ready for you to join her.’

‘Look, it’s just that I can’t do relationships any more,’ he said, forcing out the words. Trying to explain something he didn’t fully understand himself. The impotence and the grief of not being able to help his lovely Alice, and the knowledge that such pain again would kill him. ‘It’s not fair to mess you around.’

But Maggie wasn’t looking at him with sympathy, or with understanding.

Whew. Anger was good here. Anger was great. It pushed away any embarrassment, gave her the words that needed to be said and the dignity to say them.

‘How can you be messing me around?’ she said, stiffly and coldly. ‘I kissed you—yes, I did kiss you, and very nice it was, too. Given half a chance I’d do it again. Only that’s all it was—a kiss—nothing to do with my life. And if you think I’m about to turn into some helpless, clinging female…’

‘I didn’t say that.’

‘You didn’t need to.’ She gritted her teeth. ‘Thank you very much for today. It was very kind. You’ve been very kind to me all round, and if there’s any way I can repay you, please let me know. But I don’t need anything else. I’m sorry you

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