His Christmas Bride-To-Be by Abigail Gordon

Author:Abigail Gordon [Gordon, Abigail]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B00YN0AMY2
Publisher: Harlequin Medical Romances
Published: 2015-12-01T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

EMMA’S FIRST PATIENT the next day was Anna Marsden, who had been in recently for her yearly check-up and was now back to have a chat about the results.

Newly retired from the position of manageress of Glenminster’s largest womenswear boutique, Anna and her husband had been looking forward to a stress-free retirement. So Emma was not relishing having to let her know that the tests had shown that Anna had a type of blood clotting that showed signs of leukaemia and was going to need further investigation and treatment.

Anna’s reaction to the news was typical of her. She listened to what Emma had to say and then responded calmly, ‘Where do I go from here?’

‘You have an appointment next Monday at the hospital,’ Emma told her. ‘Once you’ve chatted to the doctors there, you will have a clearer idea of what is involved.’

The woman seated across from her in the small consulting room smiled a twisted smile. ‘Yes, of course, and at least I’ll be able to have a lie-in when I feel like it now that I’m retired.’

When Anna left, the morning took its usual course of a steady flow of the sick and suffering coming and going. It gave Emma no time to question Glenn’s reaction to the possibility that she might one day be living in the house next to his.

But in the lunch hour when Emma had a moment to spare and think about it properly, it became clear to her that although they’d spent some quality time together over the weekend he was still living in the past. There was no way she wanted to be in the background, chipping away at his love for the wife he had lost.

Yet it wasn’t going to stop her from buying the house next to his if the opportunity presented itself. If Glenn was going to resent having her so near in his free time as well as being around constantly at the practice she would just have to accept the fact and get on with her life.

Glenn had just returned from visiting a patient who lived at the other end of the church graveyard from where the practice was. He popped in to inform her briefly that while there had been no sign of anyone hanging around the grave in the light of day, there had been fresh roses in one of the vases. Emma’s niggling feeling of unease came flooding back.

* * *

With Christmas just a week away and her rash promise to spend some of the time with Glenn and his family hanging over her, Emma went to shop for the event on her way home that evening with little enthusiasm. She would be dining on one of the special nights of the year with people she hardly knew and could see it being an ordeal.

The daytime activity she’d volunteered for was different because she would be doing something useful in helping Glenn’s father to bring some light into the darkness of other folks’ lives.

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