Dr Blake's Angel by Marion Lennox

Author:Marion Lennox [Lennox, Marion]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781426881565
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-01-07T05:00:00+00:00

Dinner was steak, chips and salad—Blake’s staple diet. Every evening he followed almost the same routine. He threw frozen chips in the oven, had a quick shower and then emerged to fry steak and toss a bit of salad. It was an unexciting diet but it kept him alive.

Nell wasn’t complaining. Wrapped in her voluminous crimson bathrobe, she walked into the kitchen and wrinkled her nose in appreciation.

‘Yum. No one told me you could cook.’

‘It’s hardly gourmet cooking.’ He looked up from his frying-pan and found her eyes doing a careful assessment of him—from the toes up. The sensation was unnerving, to say the least. ‘How…how do you like your steak?’

‘Medium. So I’m sure it’s dead.’ She sniffed her appreciation. ‘And chips, too. Wow! What a man!’

‘You’ll make me go all bashful,’ he told her, grinning and trying desperately not to do just that. He was practically acting like a schoolboy! ‘Sit down.’ He went back to concentrating on his steak, but he was searingly aware of Nell’s eyes following his every move.

‘You can have some wine if you like,’ she told him. ‘I’ve slept all afternoon, and it’s my turn to be on call, so you can eat and drink all you like and then fall into bed.’

Wonderful thought. Ridiculous thought!

‘I need to go back to the hospital. I haven’t done my rounds yet.’

‘I can do those for you.’

‘They’re my responsibility.’

‘You’re sharing responsibility, remember?’ She smiled up at him as he placed a loaded plate in front of her, and her smile made his guts move sideways. ‘With me. And you’ve worked all afternoon while I’ve slept.’

‘You’re not doing my ward rounds.’

She glared. ‘I’ll sulk.’

‘Sulk away.’

‘I’ll ring up Jonas and tell him you’re not co-operating.’

‘Fate worse than death. I can cope.’

‘I’ll strip naked!’

Blake’s eyes flew wide at that, and she chortled. ‘Got you there. That is a fate worse than death.’ She looked down at her very pregnant bulge. ‘And maybe you’re right to back away in horror. Sexy I ain’t.’

Sexy she most certainly was, with her gorgeous crimson robe and her tousled curls and her wide green eyes, but he wasn’t saying that for the world.

‘So tell me about your wife,’ she said conversationally, ignoring his astonishment and popping a chip into her mouth. ‘What was she like?’

That was enough to kill any vestige of amusement. ‘You don’t want to know about my wife.’

‘Of course I want to know about your wife.’ Another chip went the way of its predecessor and she twinkled. ‘I’m the world’s biggest sticky beak—that’s me—and Jonas and Em told me just enough to be tantalising.’

‘Well, get untantalised. I’m not talking.’

‘Why not?’

He ate half his steak before answering, but his silence didn’t work. Instead of being abashed, she was eyeing him like an inquisitive sparrow, and her probing laughter was almost impossible to resist. She ate and watched him, and he had the feeling she was laughing inside at his reticence. Finally he laid down his knife and fork and glared.

‘You tell me first.’

‘Tell you what?’

‘I assume there’s been a man in your life.

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