DAISY AND THE DOCTOR by Meredith Webber

Author:Meredith Webber
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

IT DIDN’T take long for Daisy to realise how much she’d missed direct personal contact with her patients. Being back in a clinic, part of a team working together to help children reach their true potential, no matter what problems they had, was far more satisfying than talking to faceless people on the phone or by email.

‘Two days to go!’

Julian poked his head into the observation room where she was watching a young boy, Christian Kerr, begin an activity the occupational therapist working with him had suggested.

Daisy glanced towards the door and felt a now familiar lurch in her stomach as Julian smiled at her then walked away. Christian was unsettling the table at which he and Sue, the occupational therapist, sat by jerking his knees against it.

Ignoring the stomach-lurch, and the meaning implicit in Julian’s teasing words, Daisy concentrated on Christian’s behaviour and made a note on the chart she held in front of her.

But she hadn’t needed words to remind her just how close the deadline had come. Sometimes it seemed she’d been ticking off the minutes—let alone the days.

She’d asked for a week, and it was up on Sunday. Today was Friday. Two more days to D—for Decision—Day.

She sighed as she noted Christian’s increasingly erratic behaviour, and made more marks on the chart.

Part of the problem was Julian’s mother. She was so damn nice. Not that nice was bad, mind you, but Mrs Austin— ‘Call me Diana, my dear’—was the kind of nice that made Daisy squirm, mainly because she was totally inexperienced in dealing with delightful amiability on such a scale.

And she was confiding—telling Daisy things she was sure she shouldn’t know. Not that Daisy minded the stories about Julian as an infant prodigy, a child genius and a perfect teenager. But when she got onto girls he’d dated in his teenage years— ‘They never stuck, my dear’—Daisy felt acutely uncomfortable.

Christian left the table and was fiddling with the blind cords and suddenly Daisy’s view of him was cut off as the blind slammed down.

‘You’re as bad as Christian is,’ Daisy chided herself, as her fidgety mind wandered back to the previous weekend and the incredible interlude in the spa. Against all common sense, a big part of her wanted to say yes to Julian’s proposition, for the delicious pleasure of repeating what had happened in the spa.

‘That’s pure self-indulgence—you’re supposed to be considering what’s best for the child, not your own pleasure.’

As she muttered the words crossly to herself, Sue raised the blind so Daisy’s observation of Christian could continue.

The little boy was now staring into space, obviously not listening to Sue’s instructions to find six blue objects on the toy shelves. He must have heard, for he crossed to the shelves, found a blue ball and a small blue truck, then he sat down and began to play with the truck, running it backwards and forwards across the carpet making brrrooom noises.

Two more marks on his file—one for not paying attention when being spoken to, and one for not completing his task.

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