Love Under Two Mavericks by Cara Covington

Author:Cara Covington
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Lewis paid close attention as Dr. Jessop unwrapped Michaela’s left hand. She’d refused pain pills that morning, and while a part of him accepted that as her right, another part wanted to do all he could to take away any pain she might be feeling.

“It’s looking good.” Dr. Jessop looked up and met his gaze for just a moment then turned his attention back to Michaela. “Are you generally a fast healer?”

“I haven’t often injured myself,” she said. “So I don’t know if I can honestly answer that.”

“Well, this looks good. I want you to finish the prescription of antibiotics I gave you, but whether you take any of the pain medication is up to you. If the wound begins to ache, that would be a sign either that you’re doing too much or there’s infection. You know the signs of infection?”

Michaela nodded. “Redness and warmth to the touch.”

“That’s it. That happens, get in here. Otherwise, I want to see you on Friday, and if it’s as good as I think it will be then, you can go back to work beginning Saturday.”

“All right, thank you. It was easy to remember not to use my left hand with the overabundance of bandages you put on it.”

Robert Jessop grinned. “You have no idea how many people say that to me.” He looked down at her hand. “I’ll dress the wound and then bind it to the next finger, only. How’s that for a compromise? Then, tomorrow morning, when you dress it, you can just use a simple bandage.”

Michaela tilted her head as she considered him. “I’m beginning to see it now. That would be good, thanks, though the brat in me must point out that it’s not really a compromise if it’s what you’ve decided to do, regardless.”

Lewis raised one eyebrow and shrugged when, laughing, Robert looked at him again. “Give it one more day before you get it wet. I’ll put some antibiotic cream on it, but there’s no sign of infection. I’ll feel better if that heals just a bit more before you get it wet. And by wet, I mean shower. Stay away from doing the dishes for a bit, yet. And please keep your hands out of any physical work whatsoever—wet or dry.”

“Yes, sir.”

There was cheekiness in both Michaela’s answer and her eyes when she said that. Lewis’s hand actually itched to lay a little smack on that sexy ass of hers.

“You gotta love the brats,” Robert Jessop said.

It was an off-the-cuff sort of comment. A throw-away line. Or it would have been, Lewis mused, if it had been said at any other time by any other person in this town.

But here and now, and aimed at him by Robert Jessop about Michaela Powell?

There’s nothing off the cuff or throw away about that at all, damned Dom. Which, in the end, was just as well, since he was most definitely falling in love with the woman.

It was all he could do not to close his eyes as that truth reverberated inside his mind.

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