Harlequin Medical Romance March 2021--Box Set 1 of 2 by Annie Claydon

Author:Annie Claydon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

WHAT SHE’D TOLD Mateo was the truth. She never socialized when on call.

Yet by Wednesday morning, she was absolutely contemplating breaking her own rule and inviting Mateo over that evening.

The night before, for the first time that she could remember, she’d felt lonely. Adrift, as though some essential mooring had been slipped over the weekend with Mateo, and she was floating without a destination.

Ridiculous, of course. Her destination was still as fixed as it had ever been—perhaps even more so, since she’d received an email from the hospital in San Francisco, announcing the retirement of the current Chief of Medicine. He’d finally set a date of departure, which was six months hence.

She’d known the retirement was in the works for a while, and that the hospital board had already chosen the Deputy Chief to replace him. It wasn’t her time quite yet, but she’d positioned herself to keep moving up in the hierarchy, and was hopeful that all her hard work would pay off with a promotion to the next level.

Then she’d be third from the top, behind whoever was chosen as Deputy Chief of Medicine.

Although it seemed as if her plans and hard work were paying off, she’d felt no real excitement on seeing the email, and no amount of telling herself she should be excited helped.

She’d wanted to call Mateo and tell him about it, so as to get a relatively unbiased view of it all, but that wasn’t the kind of relationship they had.

More like, not the kind of relationship she wanted to have with him.

There was no future in being his friend, or considering him hers. No use in cultivating the kind of relationship where his opinion and advice were important. That hearkened back to her mother having to take her father’s “advice” before doing even the simplest of things, and just thinking about it made Regina’s stomach curdle.

She’d thought about calling Cher, just for a chat, but had gotten lost in the memories of the weekend spent with Mateo, and then realized it was too late to phone her friend, who went to bed with the birds.

That had left her with only her muddled thoughts and physical yearnings for company.

It was no good telling herself that she didn’t want to want Mateo the way she did, when every nerve ending in her body was set on reminding her of how good he made her feel. So here she was, trying to figure out which was better: another sleepless night of tossing and turning with unfulfilled desire, or setting a precedent she’d probably regret.

She chose the latter, rationalizing that she couldn’t go on suffering insomnia and still being her usual effective self at work.

Mateo was the cure for what ailed her.

Besides, it was a carefully considered action, she reassured herself, rather than a spur-of-the-moment loss of control. Wanting to have a physical urge taken care of was natural, and when it could be easily dealt with, and out of the way, there was no need to quibble.

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