Sun Kissed by Catherine Anderson

Author:Catherine Anderson [Anderson, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, Inc.
Published: 2007-11-10T20:00:00+00:00

A few mornings later Tucker brought in a giant breakfast burrito for their first meal of the day, which he divided with a scalpel and served up on paper towels. Samantha had grown accustomed to joining him for takeout meals at his desk and sat across from him without invitation. As they chewed food and sipped steaming mugs of coffee, they each broke off pieces of burrito for Max, who clearly considered himself deserving of his share.

When the meal was almost finished, Tucker looked Samantha dead in the eye, assumed a solemn expression, and said, “You can take Tabasco home today.”

Samantha almost choked on a bit of ham. “What?”

His firm mouth twitched at one corner. “His levels have dropped again. He’s not out of the woods yet. I won’t say that. But he’s come far enough to be off the fluids and monitors. You can take your baby home.”

The news filled Samantha with gladness but also with a strange, inexplicable sense of loss. Her time with Tucker was almost over. Despite all her efforts not to, she’d come to enjoy being with him, maybe even to need being with him. Sharing simple meals like this one. Watching him as he pored over medical tomes. Working beside him as he treated Tabasco. Once she returned to the ranch, she’d see him only briefly when he came out to check on her horse. She wasn’t sure why that made her so sad, only that it did, and the realization made her feel all mixed-up inside.

She carefully set down her cup of coffee, removed the paper napkin from her lap, and pushed to her feet. She couldn’t speak past the huge lump that had come into her throat. Before she embarrassed herself, she fled the office and ran to the bathroom, the only place in the clinic where she could hide behind a locked door.

Once there, she sat on the commode, still struggling against tears, her emotions in such a tangle that she couldn’t make sense of them. She was delighted that Tabasco had improved enough to go home. She was absolutely overjoyed, in fact. For days on end she’d spent nearly every moment frantically praying he wouldn’t die. So why did she feel this overpowering urge to cry? It was silly. No, more than silly, it was stupid.

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