The Doctor & the Runaway Heiress by Marion Lennox

Author:Marion Lennox
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Medical
ISBN: 9781408924877
Publisher: HarlequinUKLtd
Published: 2011-09-17T14:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

SHE woke and he was gone.

She lay in the filtered dawn light and forced herself to absorb the fact without panic. She was trying to figure where she was, what had happened, what was real and what was dream.

She was naked. The bed smelled of love-making. There was a strong indentation in the pillow crushed beside hers. She rolled over and buried her face in the linen, thinking she could smell him.

She’d made love to Riley Chase.

She’d taken him …

She closed her eyes, letting the sensations of the night before unfold, reveal themselves, sort themselves into some sort of order.

She’d had a nightmare. Riley had come in to comfort her. She’d pulled him to her and she’d made love.

Talk about needy …

She should be mortified to her socks, only she wasn’t wearing socks. She was wearing nothing at all.

It felt excellent.

Her body felt new, like she’d done one of those crazy rebirth things she’d heard about. She smiled a little at that, thinking rebirth. Yes, she could have lain in a foetal position and pretended to be pushed, with a birth coach telling her exactly what to do. Or she could have taken Riley to her. She could have allowed him to take her. She could have woken feeling this …

Excellent.

Though maybe a bit sore. They’d woken during the night and made love again. And again.

She stirred and stretched and smiled. The tangerine of the desert sunrise was calling. Life was calling.

She flung off her bedclothes, headed for the shower, and went to find Riley.

Gerry had passed an excellent night. His leg was looking good and he wanted to leave, but the exceedingly large brace fastened from thigh to ankle was stopping him. Riley wasn’t about to remove it any time soon. Gerry’s wound was large and penetrating, there was access for infection everywhere, and he needed to stay right where he was.

‘The nerves were millimetres away from being severed,’ he told him. ‘And you’re not out of the woods yet.’ No need to mention the two dangers were unrelated. ‘I haven’t saved your leg only to have you come back with gangrene or worse. You’re staying in this bed for a week and we’ll hear no more about it.’

He left the room grinning, and made his way to Amy’s room. His grin faded.

Amy was cradling Baby Riley and she was crying.

‘She won’t feed,’ she said. ‘My boobs hurt, they’re that full, but she won’t feed. I fed her at midnight and she hardly drank anything and now she just wants to sleep.’

‘Hi.’ Pippa was suddenly in the room with them. She was a colleague, Riley told himself, trying hard to greet her as a colleague. But … How could she look so … neat? The last time he’d seen her …

Let’s not go there.

‘Problem?’ Pippa asked, heading for the bed, professional even if he wasn’t. Amy was cradling her baby against her breast. ‘Hey, Baby Riley, who’s a sweetheart?’ She looked at Amy’s swollen breasts, glanced at Amy’s face, and Riley thought she had an instant appreciation of the situation.

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