Harlequin Medical Romance March 2020--Box Set 1 of 2 by Emily Forbes

Author:Emily Forbes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

‘THANK GOODNESS FOR FRIDAYS.’ Isabella slammed the front door shut and stared along the hallway.

‘You didn’t even do a full week,’ Raphael called from the kitchen at the far end. ‘Come on. I’ve been waiting for you to get home so we can have a drink.’

‘Good idea.’ She was entitled to one after the hectic few days she’d spent on the ward.

‘Dinner’s not far off.’ Raphael’s glass of red wine with dinner was a nightly ritual. Another French habit he’d picked up from his family back in Avignon.

At the door into the kitchen she paused, gazed at Rafe as he stirred a sauce in a pot while at the same time squeezing garlic into it. She hadn’t seen him so relaxed. It suited him. ‘That smells divine.’ Beat take-out any night of the week.

‘Boeuf Bordelaise.’

‘Yum.’ So was the sight before her. ‘What happened to heading to Cardiff today? Isn’t that why you took the afternoon off?’

His shrug was a little stiff. Not so relaxed now she was here? ‘No rush. The conference proper doesn’t start till nine tomorrow. I’ll head away first in the morning. Won’t miss much if I’m a bit late.’

Warmth filled her. It wouldn’t be a night alone after all. ‘Cool. I’ll get changed.’ That wine was sounding better and better. She’d spent an hour with Carly, discussing the wedding, and love. She’d mostly listened, trying to ignore the flare of sadness that she wouldn’t be walking down another aisle any time soon. There’d also been her selfish wish that Carly didn’t have a man to rush home to, could go out on the town with her. But deep down, she was more than happy for her friend, and got over her funk quickly.

Up three stairs and she hesitated. Again it felt as though the ceiling was coming down on top of her and the walls crowding in. ‘That colour has got to go.’ Or she was more tired than she’d realised. She headed upward again, in a hurry to get away from the darkness.

‘Izzy?’ Raphael had come along the hall and was looking up at her. ‘What are you on about?’

‘That magenta is hideous. It’s so dark and brooding, makes the hall seem smaller than it really is.’ Not even the cream paint of the stair rails softened the atmosphere, instead accentuated all that was wrong with the paintwork.

He shrugged. ‘Like I said the other day, changing it is on the list. I just don’t happen to have forty-eight hours in every day.’

‘When you’ve poured that wine can you get out the colour schemes you said came with the place?’ Not waiting for an answer, she continued upstairs.

‘Oui, madame.’

They’d never got around to the French week, but it didn’t really matter since they flipped from English to French and back again all the time.

Pausing, she looked back down at Raphael. ‘I have more free time than you, and I like redecorating.’ She could help until she moved. When she found some free time that was. ‘I’ll wow you with my skills.

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