Only With You by Lauren Layne

Author:Lauren Layne [Layne, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Erotica, General, Contemporary Women
ISBN: 9781455546084
Google: bW77GBQTN3cC
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2014-07-28T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Somehow Gray had never imagined that his personal version of hell would include an emergency room waiting area, the frantic parents of his secretary, and her scarily stressed-out sister, who also happened to be an ex-girlfriend. Will Thatcher had shown up as well, although he at least seemed calm.

Resisting the urge to press his fingers against his temples, he turned to Will, the only one of the group not either wringing their hands or scowling at him. “Would you please explain to me how it is that you all ended up here for a very minor finger injury?”

Will shrugged good-naturedly as he dug into his second bag of peanut M&M’s. “Soph’s dad used to run this emergency room. There’s no way you could have snuck beloved Dr. Dalton’s youngest daughter through here without the whole fam finding out. M&M?”

“No. Thanks.”

“Tell us again how this happened?” Sophie’s mom asked, shredding her thumbnail to pieces with her teeth.

“Calm down, Marnie. Dr. Hoyne said it was nothing a few stitches wouldn’t fix,” Sophie’s dad said while rubbing his wife’s back.

Marnie hissed. “Oh, and what does Richard Hoyne know!”

“True, med school teaches those docs nothing these days,” Will said.

“I heard that, William,” Marnie said.

“Dr. Hoyne is a fine ER doctor. I trained him myself,” Chris said soothingly.

“So she’s not going to lose her fingers?”

Oh Jesus. Gray pinched the bridge of his nose. Of all women, the one who had to go and slice her finger was an employee. And of all the employees, he had to end up with the one whose dad was a retired doctor and had apparently handpicked the entire emergency room staff.

“I just don’t understand how this happened,” Marnie asked.

“I didn’t realize I owed you a report,” Gray snapped, losing his temper.

“Don’t get snippy with Mama Dalton,” Will said. “You’re the one cavorting around with your secretary on a Friday night, chopping off her fingers.”

“Yeah, how is it that you ended up spending Friday night with my sister?” Brynn asked, stopping her pacing for the first time since arriving.

“Oh, here we go,” Will said, noisily crunching his M&M’s.

Gray avoided Brynn’s accusing look. He hadn’t expected to see his ex-girlfriend again, and definitely lacked the quick thinking to smooth over the situation.

What the hell am I doing here? Just when Gray was about to make a cowardly exit, the doctor finally came out. Frankly, Gray couldn’t understand why they’d all been banished to the waiting room in the first place. It wasn’t like privacy was needed to sew up a couple of fingers.

“Hi, everyone, thanks for waiting,” the doctor said somberly, as though he’d just finished rebuilding Sophie’s spleen from scratch.

Dr. Hoyne shook Sophie’s dad’s hand. “I have some good news. Sophie’s going to be just fine.”

“Oh good, we were so worried,” Will said, earning a punch from Brynn.

“Will she have any permanent nerve damage?” Marnie asked, her hand pressed against her lips.

Seeing the genuine maternal concern, Gray felt some of his irritation fade. Yes, in the grand scheme of medical emergencies, this was barely a blip on the radar.

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