The Princess's Christmas Baby--A captivating Christmas romance to fall in love with! by Louisa George

Author:Louisa George
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-09-08T16:59:19+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

ONCE SHE’D SETTLED the frightened friend with a nursing assistant and a hot drink, Giada sidled back to the corridor to watch Lucas in action. Truth was, she couldn’t take her eyes off him. He commanded the space and the staff who had come running, stopped and listened and then did as he asked.

He was gentle yet affirmative. Completely in control and yet listening to input. Decisive and yet compassionate and totally in his element.

How could she even entertain the thought he might want to come and live in the palace and play at being consort when he could work miracles like this? The man was more at home elbow deep in blood than with Da Vinci paintings and public receptions.

He directed the CPR effort. He took control of the count to lift the man onto the gurney. He slid the IV bore into a vein. He did something to help the man breathe—a tube into his throat she thought she saw—and attached him to a portable oxygen tube. He gave the briefest satisfied nod when they got a trace on the ECG.

He sent someone to get a portable X-ray, asked another to arrange a CT scan, then told yet another to page the general surgeons as they all filed into the ER department with the trolley and the equipment and a sense of being in total control. The last thing she saw as the resuscitation room door swung closed was his gaze on her. Just for a moment.

Even from here she could see the buzz in his eyes.

And something else...something that simmered when his guard was down. Something that made her hot all over. Power, control, authority, command. He was in his element and it suited him. Very much.

Then she was locked out of the room and quite right too. No one needed a silly princess messing things up in there.

And, unfortunately, everyone was very aware that she was here. She had to make polite small talk with the staff and the patients and pretend she hadn’t just seen a man almost die. The hospital chief had heard she was here and came to talk to her about budgets. There was an invitation to a hospital bed push charity event in the new year. Then the one thing she’d been avoiding...a question about her father.

‘He’s...he’s stable.’ She reiterated the words her brother told her every day, twice a day, when they spoke.

‘Bring him home, Your Highness,’ one of the senior nurses said as Giada sat down at the nurses’ station and waited for Lucas to be finished. ‘We’ll look after him here. Where is he?’

‘In very good hands.’ With his son. The future King. Across the world. Her heart twisted and she suddenly understood how it felt to be her brother, torn between duty and wanting to be somewhere else entirely.

‘That is good.’ The nurse exhaled. ‘I am praying for him. For you all.’

‘Thank you, Bianca.’

After dropping a curtsey, the nurse’s eyes flicked over Giada’s body and she could have sworn Bianca’s gaze stopped at her breasts and then went down to her belly.

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