Dr. Single Dad by Holly Rayner

Author:Holly Rayner [Rayner, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-12T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

I saw Brittany the moment I walked through the door on Monday. She was standing in front of my desk, flipping through a patient file. She was wearing bright red lipstick today.

“Good morning, Jess. How was your weekend?” she asked cheerily, not even looking up.

I flashed back to the Saturday I’d spent with Spencer and Jamie but decided it would be best not to mention it. I didn’t want anyone to have doubts about why Spencer had hired me. Nothing had happened that I should feel guilty about, but better to be safe than sorry.

“Great,” I said. “Nice and relaxing. How about you?”

“I woke up early on Saturday and went to the farmer’s market. I love waking up early on the weekends. It makes the days seem longer,” she said. “What time did you wake up on Saturday?”

It seemed like an odd question, but I shrugged. “Um, I’m not sure. I didn’t set an alarm. Probably around nine.”

“That’s early, considering you walked home from the bar.” She smiled to herself as she spoke, and I felt like I was missing something. “How long was the walk, after all?”

“Twenty minutes.”

She tucked her lips in and hummed. “That was nice of Dr. Hunt to walk you home.”

“Very nice,” I agreed.

“He usually doesn’t come to work events like that. I wonder why he changed his mind that night. Did he tell you why?” she asked.

“He told us both that he had a babysitter and wanted to make the most of his free evening,” I said.

She nodded again. “Yeah, I suppose he did. I just wondered if that was the real reason.”

“You’d have to ask him,” I said, feeling a bit more guarded. Whatever Brittany wanted to find out about Spencer, she wasn’t going to get it from me.

Brittany flipped the file shut and looked up at me, a smile painted across her face. “Let’s get lunch one day this week. There’s a great salad bar across the street.”

“Yeah, that would be great.” There hadn’t been much of an opportunity for me to bond with Brittany yet, and I certainly wanted to. She was head nurse, after all. We would be spending a lot of time together.

I decided I’d made the right call about not mentioning the impromptu arcade day date to Brittany, because Dr. Hunt didn’t so much as mention it when he greeted me that morning.

“Good weekend?” he asked, sorting through a stack of mail that had been shoved in the mailbox outside his door.

“It was okay,” I said with a shrug.

This caught his attention. He raised an eyebrow and looked at me out of the corner of his eye. “Just okay?”

“Just okay,” I said with a teasing smile. “How was yours?”

He turned to face me, looking serious. “It was wonderful.”

My heart fluttered. “I’m glad to hear it.”

The week was crazy. Between surgeries and business meetings, Dr. Hunt was hardly in the office. Alexandria assured me this was normal for him; while he tried to be at the practice as often as he could, he was stretched between the medical side and the business side of his profession.

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