Harlequin Medical Romance October 2018--Box Set 1 of 2 by Emily Forbes

Author:Emily Forbes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

LOLA HAD NOT long succumbed to sleep on the couch when the door opened and her eyelids pinged open. Between the hurricane-like roar of the fan overhead and the fact that she’d dropped like a stone into the deepest depths of unconsciousness, she was amazed she’d heard a thing.

She must have really been attuned to the key in the lock!

Squinting at the time on the television display—it was almost ten—she swung her legs to the floor. ‘Hamish?’

‘Sorry,’ he said from somewhere behind her. ‘I didn’t mean to wake you. I thought you’d be in bed. What are you doing out here?’

Lola’s thoughts floated in a thick soup of disorientation. What was she doing out here? ‘I’m…waiting for you to come home.’

‘Sorry, I didn’t realise. Debrief went on for ever.’

He appeared in front of her, lowering himself down on the end of the coffee table and setting his backpack on the floor. There were a few feet separating them but, as always, she felt the tug of him.

‘You didn’t have to wait up.’

Lola shrugged. Did he think she’d just go to bed after the things he’d seen last night without checking in with him first? Just because she didn’t think they should get intimately involved, it didn’t mean they still couldn’t care for each other, have empathy for each other.

‘It’s fine,’ she dismissed, suddenly realising that he was in shorts and T-shirt instead of his uniform and that his russet hair was damp and curling at his nape. ‘You had a shower at work?’ He didn’t usually.

‘Yeah. Everything stank of smoke, even my hair.’

He ran his palms down his thighs, drawing her gaze to the gold-blond hairs on his legs and the state of his knees. They were criss-crossed with tiny livid cuts and areas that had been rubbed raw.

‘Do they hurt?’

‘A little.’ He shrugged as if it was just a mild inconvenience. ‘How’s Wesley?’

Lola had been waiting for the question, knowing it would come. She wished she had better news to tell Hamish, even though she knew he knew full well the severity of Wesley’s injuries. ‘He’d not long come back from CT when I left.’

He nodded slowly. ‘Bad?’

‘Diffuse brain injury with severe cerebral swelling. They were prepping him for Theatre.’

‘Right.’ He nodded and rose from the table, heading to the kitchen. She heard the fridge door open and he called, ‘You want a beer?’

‘No.’ Lola didn’t think twice at Hamish consuming a beer at ten in the morning. Quite a few of her colleagues had a drink or two before going to sleep after night duty. They swore it was better than sleeping tablets, which many shift workers resorted to.

He reappeared in the kitchen doorway, leaning against the jamb as he took a few deep swallows. The hem of his T-shirt lifted slightly, flashing a strip of tanned abs.

‘They’re saying on television that the bomb was set off by some guy who’s a disgruntled ex-employee,’ she said.

‘Yeah, I heard. Death toll’s risen to thirty-four too.’ He wandered

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