Harlequin Medical Romance September 2020--Box Set 1 of 2 by Annie O'Neil

Author:Annie O'Neil
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

CARO WAS BRIGHT and early on Monday morning, and looking as smart as she always did when she visited the clinic. The briskness of her manner told Drew that she’d made the same resolution as he had. Their kiss had been wonderful, and if it had settled the question about whether Caro was beautiful or not, he would be completely happy. But it was something that shouldn’t be repeated.

‘I made something. It’s a thank-you gift for the clinic.’ She dumped the box she was carrying in front of him on his desk.

‘That’s nice. May I open it?’

‘If you don’t, it’s not going to be a great deal of use, is it.’

Okay. Logic trounced pretty much everything else in Caro’s book. Drew flipped open the lid of the box and saw a small robot dog crouched at the bottom.

‘Oh. That’s great. Thank you.’ Drew wasn’t quite sure what they were going to do with it, they had enough real dogs around here, but it was a nice thought.

‘You haven’t seen what it does yet.’

He lifted the dog out of the box and tried to stand it on its legs on his desk. The legs weren’t stiff enough to hold the body and the dog collapsed into a sitting position. Maybe there was something wrong with it.

‘It’s supposed to be lying down. This is a very specific, sole-purpose dog.’

Sole-purpose dogs were a new one on Drew, but he went with the flow. No doubt Caro was about to dazzle him with something clever. ‘What’s its sole purpose?’

She rolled her eyes as if that should be obvious to him. ‘I noticed last week that there was a pup in an incubator. It seemed a bit lonely.’

The pup had been very sick, although it was improving now. It had had blankets and a favourite toy but hadn’t taken much notice of either. Drew found the on switch for the robot, hidden behind its ear, and pressed it. The robot’s small frame began to expand and contract in a regular rhythm.

‘It’s breathing!’

Caro gave him a reproving look, but obviously decided that she didn’t need to tell him that it wasn’t actually breathing, just that its chest was moving up and down.

‘I’ve heard about breathing pet comforters, and it seemed like a good idea. If the pup’s mother were with it, she’d be breathing.’ Caro frowned. ‘She’d be furry, too.’

‘Well…yes.’ There was that to it, but breathing was a good start. ‘I guess we could make it a coat.’ He wondered how Caro might feel about the clinic making alterations to her designs.

Finally, she smiled. ‘Yes, that’s what I was hoping you might do. You know best the kind of thing that would be most comforting and what’s hypo-allergenic and so on. I’d like you to complete the design.’

Drew was conscious of the honour that was being accorded them. Caro never hesitated in asking for the information she needed. But she didn’t just turn her half-finished designs over to someone else for the finishing touches.

‘Thank you.

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