Doctor Daddy Dilemma: An Age Gap, Secret Baby, Medical Romance (Forbidden Doctors) by Sofia T Summers

Author:Sofia T Summers [Summers, Sofia T]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-06-24T00:00:00+00:00

19

CHARLIE

Islogged into the office on a very soggy Monday morning a few minutes late. I was shocked I hadn’t gotten a surprise visit from Lex, who had left more than a dozen voicemails for me asking what was wrong and where I went. He sounded desperate at first. Then the messages took on a more calm tone, and finally he started to sound like his very irritable, grumpy self. Every time I listened to one, I wanted to reach out to him, comfort him, reassure him that everything was okay, but it wasn’t.

I wasn’t.

No man on earth, especially one who slept with random women while calling me his girlfriend, was worth trashing my heart for. Any man who had zero self-control and thought they needed a side chick to be happy was nothing more than a lying sack. That wasn’t how my mother raised me, and if he wanted a woman who was cool with sharing, he’d have to look for someone else.

My hair was flat, so was my mood. I had done enough work over the weekend to warrant a month-long vacation, story after story finished and submitted. It was the only way I could get through the emotions I was feeling, to bury myself in work so deep I couldn’t see the top of the stacks of research. And between being so tired I needed two naps a day and the constant nausea as if I were on a ship at sea, I was dehydrated with a chronic headache.

“Hey…” Amy hissed, rushing up to me as soon as I walked through the doors. My messenger bag hung crossbody over my chest, bobbing on my hip, and she glanced down at it before giving me a confused expression. “What are you doing here?” Her voice was hushed, as if asking me why I was at work late was a secret. The whole office could see me.

“I work here?” I said raising the last note like a question. “What’s gotten into you?” I turned, heading toward my cubicle and she kept step with me the entire way. Our heels clicked on the tile, drawing attention from every cubicle we passed. A few people nodded at me, and one of them scowled, like I had wronged him somehow.

“You haven’t talked to Mr. James yet?” She grabbed my elbow and slowed our pace as we approached my cubicle. Hers was next door to mine, and it was as far as we got before she tugged me to a stop and I faced her.

“No, am I supposed to? I sent in all my stories over the weekend. He should really like what I sent him.” My mind went to the final installment of the exposé featuring Dr. Alexander Hartman, a name I couldn’t even bring to mind without growing teary-eyed. So I thought of him as the beast who preyed on my heart and savagely destroyed it. Anger was an easier emotion to mask behind a fake smile.

“Oh, babe… You should go…” She

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