Montana Actually by Fiona Lowe

Author:Fiona Lowe [Lowe, Fiona]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Medical, Romance, Western, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780698175983
Google: GVr2AwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00KWG9MPG
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2015-01-05T13:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Josh’s sigh rumbled through him, eating away at his relaxed postsex torpor. He wound strands of her drying hair around his fingers and for a moment toyed with the idea of not telling her anything about his fractured relationship with his father, but he didn’t want to argue with her. Not today when she was gutted by her mother’s news. Not when she was lying up against him all snuggly warm with her legs entangled in his. But talking about his father always put him on edge, and he didn’t particularly want to lose the languid relaxation that had him feeling mellow and content. There weren’t many times in Bear Paw he’d gotten close to content.

“Josh?” she prompted, propping herself up on her elbows and fixing him with an intense and questioning look.

Damn it. He should have made up some bullshit story about the tattoo when she’d asked, but his brain wasn’t firing on all cylinders yet after the most amazing sex he’d ever had in his life. Sex he wanted to have again. If he ducked this answer to her question, she’d continue to press him, so he really had no choice.

“I did go to medical school but not to Yale. All the Stantons have gone to Yale and graduated summa cum laude.”

Her fingers continued to follow the intricate diamond-shaped design. “More rebellion?”

“No such luck. I fooled around in the first year of college, so I didn’t make the cut. I grew up, went to Columbia, worked my ass off and graduated summa cum laude.”

She smiled. “And that made your dad happy.”

He grimaced at her optimism. “Not much about me makes Phillip Stanton happy. He may have forgiven me for going to the wrong school—”

“There is nothing wrong with graduating from Columbia,” she said hotly.

Her indignation on his behalf surprised him, and he didn’t quite know what to make of it. “Um, thanks, but no one in Connecticut is going to agree with you, especially my family. On top of Columbia I added insult to injury.”

“Because you didn’t do surgery?”

She was far too insightful. “That’s the one.”

“Did you want to do surgery?”

No one had ever asked him that before, either, and he blew out a breath filled with the complicated emotions—the ones that always raised their heads whenever he thought about his father. “When you have a family history like mine and you’re the only child, you grow up from the cradle knowing you’re going to become a doctor. A surgeon. I resisted it for a while—”

“The tattoo?”

“Yeah, and coasting the first year of college until a professor I really admired called me on it. Then I knuckled down, and once I got accepted into medical school I never questioned that surgery was my future. And it was, right up until the end of my first year as a surgical intern.”

“What happened then?” she asked, dropping her head on his chest.

He stroked her back, loving the feel of her skin. “I discovered what I loved best about surgery was the emergencies.

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