Bad Twins by Rebecca Chance

Author:Rebecca Chance
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pan Macmillan UK

Chapter Nineteen

‘Bell! You poor thing!’

Charlotte tore down the corridor of the hospital, arms outstretched, her clear, ringing, aristocratic tones catching attention, her extreme beauty drawing double takes from even the most hardened of emergency nurses and doctors, especially with the ludicrously handsome Paul following behind her.

Bella looked up from her seat at the approach of her sister and brother-in-law, heads turning behind them to goggle at their sheer gorgeousness. Charlotte dropped to her haunches in front of her twin, pulling her into an awkward embrace.

‘I’m so sorry!’ Charlotte said against her sister’s shoulder. ‘I’m so sorry!’

The man sitting on one side of Bella, tapping away on a tablet, cleared his throat, stood up and shifted to an empty row of chairs a little further down the corridor, giving Charlotte his seat. She slipped into it, still hugging her sister, not acknowledging the man in any way, let alone thanking him.

‘What happened?’ she asked, as the woman who had been flanking Bella in the other seat looked up at Paul, gesturing to indicate that he was welcome to take it if he wanted. He shook his head, muttering thanks.

When Bella didn’t answer, the woman leant over to Charlotte. She was wearing a simple two-piece dark-blue uniform, a lanyard hanging round her neck.

‘I’m Ms Sachs’s patient liaison officer,’ she said. ‘She’s in very understandable shock at the moment, and I’m here to—’

‘How’s Thomas?’ Charlotte interrupted impatiently.

‘Mr Hargreaves is in surgery,’ the patient liaison officer said. ‘There’s been extensive bleeding and swelling as a result of the head trauma, and he has some broken bones. I’m afraid we can’t possibly give a prognosis at this stage—’

‘Oh, Bell!’

Charlotte snapped her attention back to her twin, cradling Bella’s face in her hands now.

‘Darling, what happened?’ she repeated. ‘Did you see it? Have they given you anything for the shock? I didn’t even know Thomas was home – wasn’t he supposed to be away this weekend?’

‘Um, I’m really not sure if you should be asking her all these questions when she’s not in the best state to . . .’ the patient liaison officer began awkwardly.

She wasn’t sure, however, of what was correct procedure here. It was unprecedented for a patient liaison officer to be involved in effectively babysitting a patient’s wife while the patient was in intensive, long-drawn-out surgery. But her instructions had been to stay with Bella Sachs until she eventually left the hospital, making sure that she had everything she needed.

It was equally unprecedented, in the patient liaison officer’s experience, for the wife to have been accompanied to the hospital by someone who her boss had told her was a very high-powered solicitor: this was the man who had just moved his seat, apparently also prepared to stay with his client the entire time she was at the hospital. But then, the officer had never before had to look after a patient’s relative who had her name on a whole chain of hotels. She hadn’t realized there was an actual family behind the

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