Dr. Daddy by Elizabeth Bevarly

Author:Elizabeth Bevarly [Bevarly, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781459286696
Amazon: 0373351496
Barnesnoble: 0373351496
Goodreads: 1832927
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1995-01-01T16:00:00+00:00

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The following Friday night, Jonas worked late. Again. He had worked late every night that week, slumping home at well past the dinner hour with the full knowledge that Zoey would have to rush home herself if she wanted to get any sleep before pulling her shift at the hospital.

And as much as he wished the reason for his diligence at work was simply a profound professional devotion, he couldn’t deny that his late nights at the hospital were instead a direct result of trying his damnedest to avoid Zoey. He simply hadn’t been able to get Monday night out of his head, hadn’t quite come to terms with what she had told him.

Twenty years. Zoey Holland hadn’t been with a man for almost twenty years. The revelation amazed him still.

He told himself there must be something wrong with her. What healthy, normal, mentally well-adjusted adult in her thirties would shun sexual activity in this day and age? Zoey was a beautiful, intelligent, assertive woman. There must have been dozens of men in her life who had been more than willing to make love to her. No, if she had been avoiding a sexual relationship, it was because she had been the one to make that choice. But why? What was the big deal about sex, anyway? Everybody had sex. So what was Zoey’s problem?

There had to be something wrong with her, he thought again. Some deep-seated Freudian something that kept her from being a healthy, normal, mentally well-adjusted adult. So why was he still so fascinated by her? Even if something more substantial did blossom between them—something of, say, a sexual nature—he told himself the end result would no doubt be a major disappointment. She’d be shy, inhibited and awkward, more than likely having forgotten how to please a man. She wouldn’t have a clue how to perform, and he’d wind up having to do all the work himself. It would be an empty, frustrating experience.

Nevertheless, he couldn’t quite rid himself of the thrill of excitement that shimmied through him when he thought about being the one who brought her back to the fold.

“It won’t happen,” he told his reflection in the rearview mirror as he pulled his car into the driveway at half past ten. “It will never, ever happen.”

The house was silent when he entered it. He shrugged off his coat and hung it in the foyer closet, tossed his keys onto a table and went in search of Zoey and Jules. Jules, he marveled with a silent shake of his head. Now Zoey even had him calling the baby by that ridiculous nickname.

He found the two females in question in the den. Zoey lay stretched out on her back on his sofa, sound asleep. The baby was lying atop her, stomach to stomach, cheek to chest, equally lost in slumber. Jonas smiled in spite of himself. Juliana wore a pink sleeper decorated with cavorting bunnies. Zoey had on her standard blue jeans and a tattered lavender sweatshirt.

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