The Doctor's Longed-For Family by Joanna Neil

Author:Joanna Neil
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-11-27T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

‘SO YOU went for a trip out to the riverside yesterday?’ Helen said. ‘You had a good day for it, anyway. We must have had the best weather for months.’

Abby’s brow indented in a small frown. It was true that her afternoon had been bathed in sunshine, but she hadn’t commented on her outing to anyone. ‘How did you know that I went out anywhere?’

She was adjusting the infusion pump so that the child she was treating would get a slightly higher dose of the drug, which would counteract the bacteria circulating in her bloodstream.

Helen’s mouth made a wry twist. ‘I guess the grapevine has been working overtime. When you start going out with a TV personality, you’re taking a big risk if you think you can get away with it without anybody noticing. Don’t you realise that people around here watch Matt’s every move?’

‘I hope people would have better things to do, and anyway I’m not going out with him, as such.’

Helen raised a sceptical brow. ‘That’s not what I heard.’ She reached for her patient’s chart.

Abby made a face. ‘So who’s been talking?’ She didn’t want to reminisce about those few hours she and Matt had spent together, but the quiet time they had spent by the small lake had been uppermost in her mind ever since it had come to an end. It had been perfect, an idyllic time, except for the children’s revelations about Matt’s love life. She ought to have guessed that he would have a casual attitude to relationships, but perhaps she had tried to push that to the back of her mind. His kiss had put her head in a whirl and awakened feelings in her that she had not experienced in a long while.

After the picnic in the park they had gone for a walk by the lock, and she and Matt had helped the children to open and close the lock gates to allow the canal boats to pass through on their way upstream. All in all, it had been a heart-warming experience, and one that she would treasure.

‘You and Matt were the ones who did the talking, apparently,’ Helen said. ‘Have you forgotten that you were on camera in the hospital yesterday?’

Abby was shocked. ‘Any conversation was supposed to have been edited out.’ Had that not happened? Helen was telling her that she was the talk of the A and E department, and that was difficult for her to accept. She had expected that her private life would stay that way, but clearly that was not the case. ‘Are you saying that millions of people have listened to what we said?’ The thought horrified her.

‘No, you’re safe, don’t worry.’ Helen chuckled. ‘We just saw a rough cut of the show. Actually, it was Martin, the cameraman, who inadvertently gave the game away.’

‘Did he? I can’t think why the cameraman would want to let anyone know what I do in my free time.’

‘I think he was a bit down in the dumps.

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