Doctor and Protector by Meredith Webber

Author:Meredith Webber
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

‘I DON’T want to think about this any more!’ Cassie declared. ‘The men you have on the list are people I went to school with—they’re people I see socially. Even Dave’s there.’

‘It’s his list, he had to put himself on it, but I think we can cross Dave off. He might not have had alibis for some of the other events but we do know he was out at Four Seasons this morning when that shot was fired.’

‘So, what happens next? Can Dave ask all the men left on the list where they were this morning? I really don’t like that idea. We’re treating all of them as potential suspects and that’s wrong. Can police do that? Question people for no reason except they were connected with the victims?’

‘Being connected to even one victim is enough reason to ask questions,’ McCall said, but his words were all but drowned out by the loud wail of an ambulance siren coming closer to the hospital.

‘I’ll have to go,’ Cassie said, standing up and looking around for where she’d left her white coat.

McCall walked around the desk and unhooked it from the back of her chair, handing it to her, their fingers tangling as possession changed.

‘OK,’ he said, and she glanced up at him.

‘You really don’t need to come. I’ll be quite safe in A and E.’

‘Maybe,’ he said, ‘but I could be useful.’ He touched her cheek. ‘Where you go, I go, Cassie, so don’t argue about it.’

He walked behind her down the corridor, watching the way her body swayed as she moved, thinking about swaying bodies, dancing with her—what a fantasy!—as they walked towards the now-familiar room.

Dave was following the trolley-pushing ambulance attendants into A and E. Noticing McCall, he nodded grimly, but McCall’s attention was on the conversation going on between the attendants and Cassie, scraps of which made the hairs on the back of his neck stand up on end.

‘Gunshot wound…Good thing Dave was out there…Still might be too late…We’ve got fluid pumping into him, staunched the wound, but who knows what internal damage has been done.’

McCall looked back at Dave, who nodded once again.

‘Our man or an unwanted witness?’ McCall asked his friend, the two of them moving out of the way as the trolley was wheeled into the trauma room.

‘I think we’re meant to think we’ve got our man,’ Dave said, ‘and without forensic chaps looking at angles and trajectories, I probably can’t say for certain, but, frankly I don’t believe Joe Kerr—’

Before Dave could finish his reasoning, a nurse McCall hadn’t met poked her head out of the trauma room.

‘Cassie said she needs some help,’ she said.

McCall strode towards the door, then thought of something.

‘Can you get Cassie’s family out of town? I think he’s panicking, and they’re vulnerable, especially with those two little boys living there. He could get to her through any of them.’

Dave nodded and McCall continued on his way.

A nurse was pushing an overhead X-ray machine out of the way, and Cassie turned towards him.

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