Tempted by Her Hot-Shot Doc by Becky Wicks

Author:Becky Wicks
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-12-13T20:45:41+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

IT WASN’T AS if he could have stopped himself, Ryan thought, buttoning up a fresh white shirt outside his tent and raking a hand through his hair as he walked quickly back towards the medical stations. His hands had moved before his head had even been able to begin to process what he was doing.

Madeline had been floating there next to him with the sun in her beautiful green eyes, wearing next to nothing, and he’d been completely naked. He was only human, for God’s sake.

A stupid human.

He’d been careless, and that had been a close call.

‘Ryan!’

It was Maria, calling him over to one of the stations. He strode across the grass towards her, past the line of people waiting to register for treatment. He kicked a football that flew at him from the group of children clearly waiting for Madeline and waved at them, putting on a happy face.

His heart was pounding harder by the second. What if one of the camera guys had caught sight of them just now, with a telescopic zoom and an eye for making some seriously dramatic television? Not that anyone here would do that, he realised thankfully, but still, nothing would stop them talking amongst themselves about him and Madeline.

He clenched his fists at his sides. He couldn’t keep away from her. Even being angry with her didn’t help. Madeline Savoia was a bomb threatening to detonate right in front of him, and she was all the more dangerous for the way she was sliding into his conscience, getting under his skin.

All he’d wanted to do last night in that boat was lay her down and feast on the look of wonder and excitement in her eyes as he showed her even more new things. Hell, the things he wanted to show her...

He loved how empathetic she was, how readily she’d adjusted to her new environment, never once complaining about how harsh and hard it was to be out here. The kids adored her and lined up for her in the mornings, bringing her fruit and flowers and any other present they could think of to make her smile. Maria was lending her books.

She was the saint of the whole damn camp already.

‘Ryan,’ Maria said, leading him inside. She looked agitated. ‘We just had a radio call—there’s a patient on the way from the village. Mark and one of the volunteers are bringing her in on the boat right now.’

‘What’s the problem?’ he asked, glancing at another volunteer, who was wrapping a strip of gauze around a teenage boy’s forearm in the chair beside him. The air was thick and hot and smelled of antiseptic spray and disinfectant. He scrubbed his hands at the basin of water.

‘Seventeen-year-old girl, name Abigail, severe abdominal pains. Mark’s already diagnosed her with an ectopic pregnancy, ruptured tube...’

‘We have methotrexate close if we need it?’ he asked, drying off his hands on a paper sheet. It was the safest and quickest way to induce abortion.

‘Already on it,’ Maria said, doing up her scrubs as he prepared the laparoscope.

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