Secret Seduction by Lori Wilde

Author:Lori Wilde [Wilde, Lori]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Category
ISBN: 0373794150
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2009-02-02T00:11:51+00:00

You’re needed in surgical locker room 2, stat. Vanessa.

Fortunately she was the only female surgeon operating today. They’d have the locker room to themselves.

Her pulse thudded. She’d never done anything like this on the job and the excitement revved her blood. Seconds later, she heard the sound of shoes running in the corridor. The door to the locker room swung open and Tanner came barreling inside. His hair was mussed, his eyes wide with concern as if someone had just delivered him some terrible news and he was trying to escape it.

He stared at her. “What’s wrong?” he demanded. “Are you all right?”

“Now that you’re here,” she said, giving him her most arresting smile.

“What is it?” He broke their eye contact to gaze around the room, searching for trouble. “What’s the emergency?”

Vanessa crossed the room toward him, suddenly fearing she’d made a miscalculation. He didn’t seem at all in the mood for a frantic, furtive locker room quickie.

“This,” she said, sliding her arms around his neck and kissing him.

Tanner stiffened under her embrace and he did not kiss her back.

Vanessa realized then she’d made a big mistake. He removed her arms from around his shoulders.

“Was that what the stat text was all about? Nothing but a booty call?” He glowered.

Chagrined, she stepped back. Okay, now she knew why she’d never done anything impulsive like this before. It was stupid.

“Dammit, Vanessa,” he growled, and the intensity of his anger snapping in his blue eyes took her aback. “I thought something had happened to you.”

“I just thought—”

“You didn’t think. That’s the problem. You scared the hell out of me.”

Feeling more hurt than if he’d slapped her, she turned away. Her eyes stung and she blinked hard. Oh please, she was not going to cry just because he’d rejected her. “Sorry, go back to work.”

“Vanessa.” His voice was now gentler, softer.

“It’s all right.” She shrugged, still not looking at him. “You’re right. My behavior was completely inappropriate and unprofessional.”

“No, no. I was too harsh. I just feared something bad had happened to you and my mind wasn’t in the same place as yours,” Tanner said.

“Clearly.”

“Look at me.”

She finally dared to look at him. He had a wistful expression on his face that knotted her stomach. What was she doing? What had she been thinking? “You better get back to work,” she murmured.

“Vanessa…”

“Yes?”

“What are we doing?”

She shook her head. “If you don’t know, I certainly don’t.”

“Last night—”

She jumped in before he could say the words. “Was a mistake.”

“We’re co-workers,” he said.

“Confidential Rejuvenations is a fishbowl and a hotbed of gossip,” Vanessa added, miserably reading his mind. It was only natural that a place that kept so many secrets would harbor speculation and rumors.

“You’re a doctor. You don’t need anything tarnishing your reputation.”

“Yeah.” He was so damned right it hurt. She raised her palms. “Please forget it ever happened. I’m going to.”

“Are you talking about right now? Or last night?”

“All of it. Right now, last night, Emilio’s, everything.” She forced a laugh. “Apparently we’ve both got a lot to sort through.

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