Harlequin Medical Romance September 2019, Box Set 1 of 2 by Marion Lennox

Author:Marion Lennox
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

THE TELEVISION CREW was like a virus. They seemed to spread everywhere, particularly into parts of the hospital they’d been explicitly told they weren’t allowed.

On the other hand, the surgeries that Reuben had performed over the last few weeks were proving to be a miracle for some of the patients.

He didn’t just do the showbiz plastic surgery. He’d performed a skin graft on a child who’d had her face scarred by boiling water. The early results were good. He’d also performed surgery on a woman with contracture of her fingers. For the first time in years she was virtually pain-free and had a hand she could actually use. He’d reset a woman’s nose and fixed her shattered cheekbone after she’d been attacked by her ex-husband and had thought she’d be disfigured for life. Even from the sidelines, Lien’s heart had tugged as the woman had seen her reflection once the bruising had subsided and had then flung her arms around Reuben in complete gratitude.

These were the moments for which Lien had become a doctor and, a long time ago, Reuben had made her believe this was also his reason for being a surgeon.

The cynical part of her knew that when the moment had been captured by the film crew, Reuben had achieved the best publicity he could possibly hope for. It wasn’t a mistake. There was obviously another reason for all this, but so far Lien had managed to avoid him completely and now her curious brain wanted to know what he was really up to.

She and Khiem had been discussing two other potential patients for Reuben. One was a maternity patient who’d had an emergency section in an outlying village and had been left with a persistently leaking wound. They’d spent the last few weeks treating her underlying infection with IV antibiotics, and were hopeful that Reuben could use his skills on the scar and they could finally get the wound to heal.

The second was a child with a congenital condition who required facial surgery to assist his breathing. The surgeries were vastly different—but already the TV team were asking for permission regarding filming and publicity. It made Lien feel distinctly uncomfortable, but there was nothing she could do about it. Reuben was offering his time and services free, the hospital was picking up the aftercare. In any other set of circumstances these patients would never get the opportunity for surgery.

She’d just finished a ward round and was writing up a treatment regime for a TB patient when she sensed someone walk into the room behind her.

She hadn’t even turned before every cell in her body froze. The confidence of the footsteps followed by the waft of familiar cologne was all it took.

‘Why, there she is, the mystery doctor!’ Reuben exclaimed.

She kept working. ‘I’m busy,’ was her brisk reply.

‘Aren’t we all?’ He swept over to her with a swish of the white coat he persisted in wearing.

‘What do you want, Reuben?’ she sighed, still refusing to look up.

‘Why, Lien? What’s wrong? Anyone would think you weren’t pleased to see me.

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