The Seduction Challenge by Sarah Morgan

Author:Sarah Morgan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2002-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

Lucy checked her watch again and hoped for the hundredth time that morning that Sam was OK.

He’d certainly seemed all right when she’d dropped him at school. She’d checked his peak flow and had decided that he was well enough to go. But it didn’t stop her worrying. At least the class teacher had promised to call if she was worried.

She worked her way steadily through her hypertension clinic, checking blood pressures, giving dietary advice, and it was lunchtime when Joel walked into the room.

He stood aside to let her last patient out of the room and then closed the door so that they were alone.

‘How’s Sam?’

Lucy tossed an old bandage in the bin and gave him a shy smile. ‘He seems OK. I’m glad you popped in. I wanted to thank you again for last night.’

‘No thanks needed. How was he after I left? Did he wake up? Any bad dreams?’

She was touched by his concern. ‘Actually, he slept well. I was expecting problems but he was fine once we talked about it.’ She felt nothing but relief that after the initial shock Sam had seemed all right. ‘I suppose he’s grown up a lot in the last year. Children understand things at six that they don’t understand when they’re five.’

Joel gave a rueful smile. ‘I can’t honestly claim any great experience with children that age, but I’m sure you’re right. Look—we still haven’t talked about the asthma and immunisation clinics. I’m keen to hear what you think.’

Lucy glanced at her appointments on the computer. ‘My next patient has cancelled. We could have a quick chat now, if that suits you.’

He nodded, and Lucy quickly ran through the routine for the asthma clinic, stumbling over her words as she tried hard to concentrate and not notice how handsome he was.

She didn’t understand her reaction to him. It wasn’t as if she was looking for a relationship. Far from it.

After Tim had left she’d never thought for a moment that one day she might be interested in a man again, but here she was thinking all sorts of shocking thoughts just because she’d met someone who was extremely good-looking.

But she was glad that she’d insisted they just be friends. She wasn’t ready to cope with anything more.

Joel was considering what she’d told him about the asthma clinic. ‘So you’re trained to do spirometry?’

Lucy nodded. ‘As you know, we have lots of elderly patients in the practice and there’s an increase in respiratory diseases. It’s important that we distinguish between asthma and chronic obstructive airways disease because the treatment is different, and spirometry is important for that.’

‘And the immunisation clinic?’

Lucy ran him through the format for the clinic and he listened carefully.

‘The mothers get sent the appointment automatically?’

‘Yes.’

‘And if they don’t turn up?’

‘They get sent another one,’ Lucy said promptly. ‘And Kim, the health visitor, sometimes follows them up.’

Joel lifted an eyebrow. ‘Sometimes?’

‘Well, chasing non-attenders isn’t really her role,’ Lucy said. ‘Of course, she talks to them all about immunisation at

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