Harlequin Medical Romance January 2021--Box Set 1 of 2 by Scarlet Wilson

Author:Scarlet Wilson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

FELIPE LIFTED HIS hand towards the small of her back to usher her through to the dining room but she skipped ahead like a frightened doe. He allowed his hand to fall again and smiled. He’d liked that glimpse of a different Cleo. The one he’d met in the flamenco club and who had been markedly absent ever since they’d met again in Sofia’s hospital room.

She walked swiftly to increase the distance between them and though they entered the dining room together they moved apart like ripples on a pond. He turned to assist his grandmother into her chair.

Cleo went to stand beside Sofia.

His grandmother touched his hand and inclined her head. ‘You watch her. Always. I see your eyes.’ Said very quietly as she shot him a wicked grin. ‘I thought you didn’t like Australians?’

He frowned at her and lifted his head to see if Cleo had heard the word Australians. She was talking to Sofia and they were both admiring the pram.

‘Enough, Àvia, you tease me. She is help for Sofia.’

‘Is she? No attraction there?’ A quirk of white eyebrows. ‘There is nothing between you at all?’ She made a derisive sound. ‘I have eyes.’

He turned his shocked gaze to her, sincerely hoping she was talking about her own eyes and not others who might have been watching him in Australia. ‘You are mistaken.’

‘Me?’ She laughed and then coughed and turned pale enough to worry him. But slowly the colour crept back into her cheeks.

‘You are changed since you came back.’ Said a little breathlessly. ‘I will find out why.’ Short sentences. ‘Then.’ A breath. ‘We will discuss it.’ His grandmother composed herself into her chair and called to Sofia. Patted the seat beside her.

There was nothing to discuss. But his grandmother’s seating arrangements left him to sit next to Cleo. What was his àvia playing at?

Thankfully the food arrived, so he could pretend to divert his attention to the array of small dishes that circled the middle of the table.

But his grandmother’s words swirled in his head. She could see his intense attraction to Cleo. Why would he be so surprised? His grandmother’s passion had always been watching others. Of course she’d seen. Next she’d be investigating Cleo from her deathbed.

This wasn’t good. He had no doubt Cleo would be unimpressed as well.

He looked across at his cousin. Another accurate observation by his grandmother. In this instance he was thankful she’d uncovered it and still felt guilty as hell that he’d allowed Sofia to slip unnoticed into a disaster. He should have checked on her himself as soon as his father had died.

And in an indirect way his grandmother’s meddling in her grandchildren’s lives had also brought him to having the woman he could not ignore beside him. A woman who had infiltrated his senses like the subtle scent she wore. Aware of every move of her arm. Every turn of her head. The way Raymond, and even Maya, had tacitly given a nod of approval for the woman he had brought with him to the hospice.

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