Sheikh, Children's Doctor...Husband by Meredith Webber

Author:Meredith Webber
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

THE baby stirred against her chest and gave a feeble whimper. Not wanting it to cry and wake Azzam or the other children, Alex slid out from between them. She unwound the scraps of material with which she’d bound the baby to her chest, found the bottle of milk, and held the teat to the infant’s lips. She tried not to think where the milk—or the bottle—might have come from, and dismissed all thought of sterility from her mind.

Which wasn’t that hard, as thoughts of the man who’d slept beside her were clamouring for attention.

She’d woken to the feel of his warmth and the solidity of his body, and had felt her own warmth build in response to his closeness. Not sexual warmth—or she didn’t think it was—more just a feeling of security, a sense of shared responsibilities.

He was her husband…

Nonsense, he wasn’t a real husband—not in any sense. It was convenience, nothing more.

Definitely not sexual warmth!

The baby sucked avidly, reminding her of where her attention should be. Holding the bottle and baby with one hand, Alex searched through the medical supplies until she found another sling, and, padding it with cotton wool, fashioned a nappy for the infant.

‘There,’ she said to him as he finished the milk and snuggled against her chest, ‘now you’ll be more comfortable.’

She checked his sleeping siblings then tucked the baby in between them, so she wouldn’t be hampered, and he wouldn’t be disturbed, if she had to move to tend another patient during the night. In fact, now she was awake she should check on all the patients.

Or was she looking for an excuse to escape the man who lay, sleeping so soundly, right beside her?

An excuse to escape her thoughts?

She smiled to herself as she realised that to someone who’d battled on alone as she had recently, the warmth of shared responsibilities might be more alluring than sexual warmth.

Well, almost…

Although it had been such a long time since she’d felt any stirrings of a sensual nature, she couldn’t really judge. She’d stopped feeling them long before David had opted out her of life so precipitously. When first they’d met, his insistence they not make love until they married had seemed so quaint and old-fashioned she’d admired him for it—even felt special in some way. But why had it never occurred to her to wonder why the decision didn’t irk her?

Because being with David hadn’t stirred her body and her senses the way this man’s presence did?

Because she’d never felt much physical frustration over his decree? Maybe a quiver or two when they’d kissed, but even that had stopped long before they’d parted. In fact, in retrospect, she had to wonder if David had remained engaged to her to protect himself—to avoid a permanent commitment to another woman. Any woman!

So, if she was to feel strange stirrings now, would it be so surprising? Even in the dim light of the dying fire, the man who lay beside her was clearly something special. His

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