It Happened One Night Shift by Amy Andrews

Author:Amy Andrews
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

‘AH, THERE YOU ARE, you gorgeous young man.’ The elderly woman lying on the exam table located in the middle of the room had a twinkle in her eyes as she waggled her fingers at Gareth and Billie almost laughed out loud at her greeting. ‘I thought you’d skipped out on me.’

‘Me? Skip out on you, Mrs Berkley?’ Gareth murmured, and Billie blinked at the low, easy, flirty tone to his voice. ‘Never.’

‘Oh, and you’ve bought a pretty young woman with you.’ Mrs Berkley beamed at Billie. ‘Come in, my dear.’ She gestured with her good arm. ‘My goodness, how do you young people get things done around here with so much to distract you?’

He glanced at Billie. Their gazes locked and her breath hitched for a second.

‘It’s a challenge, Mrs B., I can’t deny that,’ Gareth said, before switching his attention to the patient, sitting himself down on the stool beside the table and swinging slightly from side to side.

Mrs B. cackled merrily. ‘I can imagine. I remember when me and my Ted were going around. Couldn’t pass each other without wanting to tear each other’s clothes off.’

Billie blinked at the frank admission and Gareth stopped swivelling on the stool as the room filled with a pregnant silence.

‘Hah.’ The octogenarian cracked up again. ‘That shocked the cotton socks off you, didn’t it? What, you think you young people invented sex?’

Gareth recovered quite quickly. ‘Absolutely not, and I thank you and your generation most earnestly for your pioneering ways.’

Mrs B. grinned from ear to ear. ‘You’re welcome,’ she said, her hand covering Gareth’s and giving it a pat. ‘I could tell you some stories that would make you blush right to the roots of your hair.’

Billie’s mind boggled but Gareth had her measure. ‘I don’t embarrass easily, Mrs B. We nurses aren’t prone to being shocked.’

Billie was pleased Gareth wasn’t shocked because she had to admit to feeling just the tiniest bit so. She didn’t know if Mrs B. was always this outrageous or if it was the combination of alcohol and drugs but Billie wasn’t used to such freeness of expression in eighty-year-olds.

But it appeared Mrs Berkley was on a roll. The older woman gave Gareth a secretive smile and tapped the side of her nose three times. ‘I still reckon I could teach you a thing or two, young man.’

Gareth, looking completely unconcerned by the flirting, grinned and said, ‘I’ll bet you could.’

Mrs B. turned her eyes on Billie. ‘Isn’t he marvellous, dear? I mean, really, do they have those nudie calendars for male nurses...you know, like they do for the firefighters? This young man could be the centrefold.’

Now Billie really was at a loss for words and not just because they’d been uttered by a great-grandmother. The illicit thought of Gareth stripped nude made her lose her train of thought.

She glanced at Gareth, who was looking at her with a quirked eyebrow. ‘Yes,’ he mused. ‘Why don’t we do calendars?’

Billie really felt like she’d leapt into an alternate universe.

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