Reunited with Her Army Doc by Dianne Drake

Author:Dianne Drake
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-10-16T17:34:20+00:00

Chapter Six

IT WAS SEVEN in the morning now, and he was exhausted: exhausted from too much thinking, from pacing back and forth, from wondering and worrying. All night long. Minute after minute, hour after hour. Unrelenting confusion. Even Matthew had noticed, and that wasn’t good because this was something he didn’t need his son involved in. Five, albeit a genius five, was too young to be carrying around adult woes. Yet as he dropped Matthew off at his parents’ house this morning, his little boy seemed to be weighed down by the same stresses that were weighing on him. Shuffling little gait, slumped shoulders, heavy sighs...

Caleb shut his eyes and sighed heavily himself. Why was he falling for Leanne? Again? He’d vowed not to. Even last night, after that kiss, he’d promised himself he wouldn’t go near that again. Yet if she walked in here right now, stopped at the nursing desk and kissed him the way she had, he wasn’t sure he could, or would, resist it. And that was why he was starting his day on exactly zero hours of sleep. Too tired to move. Or think. But not too tired to recognize his confusion, because it was there, in spades, threatening to bring him to his knees.

“So, what’s first up this morning?” he asked Helen McBriarty, trying to infuse some life into his voice.

She was standing in the hallway outside his office door, waiting for him as he walked down the hall. She was also the mother of Scott McBriarty, someone who’d gotten into a lot of childhood trouble with him. Smoking, drinking, minor vandalism. To this day, Helen didn’t like him and, judging from the scowl on her face this morning, she particularly didn’t like the fact that he was ten minutes late. Or that he was working at Sinclair. Or that he’d even returned to Marrell. And with the way he was feeling right now, if she’d pointed to the door and told him to get out, the way she’d done so often when he’d turned up at her house for Scott, he might just take her up on it.

But no such luck. She shoved an old-fashioned clipboard at his chest and barked, “Rounds. You have five patients admitted with general complaints. Same five you saw yesterday. Review committee meeting at eleven. Clinic starting at one. So far, you have nine appointments scheduled, with two tentatives who might show up as walk-ins. Oh, and because you were late this morning, I’m assuming you’ll extend your hours at the end of the day to make up for it.” She folded her arms across her ample bosom and tapped her foot impatiently. “We all go by the same rules around here, Doctor. No one person is better than another.”

If anyone ever needed to be put in their place, Helen was the one to do it. But that wasn’t a bad thing right now, because it was her testy demeanor that snapped him back to the present.

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