A Doctor's Dilemma by Laura Scott

Author:Laura Scott [Scott, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Readscape Publishing, LLC

Ethan figured if anyone deserved the Ironman award for maintaining control, it was him. Swimming, biking, and running was easy compared to surviving the day without touching Kate, like really touching her, or more, giving in to his desire to pull her close and kiss her until they both couldn’t breathe.

Yeah, he was quite the gentleman, all right. If not the Ironman award, then maybe the Boy Scout Badge of Honor? Surely, he deserved something for getting through the entire day without completely losing his mind.

Darkness had fallen, cloaking the car in a veil of intimacy as he drove along the non-crowded interstate highway toward home. The kids had fallen quietly asleep in the backseat, exhausted from hours of swimming and food. He figured the dent in his checkbook had been paid back double by the sound of Carly’s laughter and her rapt expression of enjoyment.

He glanced at Kate, seated beside him. It hadn’t taken long for her to tip her head back, resting against the seat, and fall asleep. She was quite the woman, bouncing back from her near-death experience with hardly a whimper. Those moments when he performed rescue breathing for her had seemed endless, but she’d brushed off his concern. Her head was no doubt throbbing, not to mention her shoulder, which she hadn’t murmured a single complaint about either. No, instead, she’d spent the afternoon trying to make him laugh with her goofy jokes.

A smile tugged at his mouth. He couldn’t think of anything except seeing her again, without Carly as a chaperone. But how to broach the subject? How long since he’d been out on a date? Years. Many years. He and Susan had been married for five years, getting married while he was in his second year of medical school, and they’d dated for two years prior to that. And she’d been gone for about a year now.

His gut twisted, and he tightened his grip on the steering wheel. Nine long years. All right, so maybe he was out of practice. Things couldn’t have changed that much. All he needed to do was simply ask Kate out. For dinner. Or a movie. He frowned. There must be nice restaurants around here someplace, even if he couldn’t name one that didn’t include a children’s menu. What movies were playing? Were any of them any good? He had no clue. He’d need to ask around for advice.

Far too soon, he pulled into the Lifeline parking lot, where Kate’s car was waiting.

He gently shook her arm, waking her. Blinking, she lifted her head and quickly glanced in the backseat.

“Don’t worry, they’ve been out for quite a while,” he assured her.

“I guess I was, too. But thanks to my nap, my head already feels better.” She smiled. “Thanks for a great day, Ethan. I’d better get Tyler home. Shelly is going to wonder if we kidnapped him.”

When she moved as if to get out of the car, he put a hand on her arm. “Kate, I’d—that is . .

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