Dr. Devastating by Christine Rimmer

Author:Christine Rimmer [Rimmer, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Physicians, Nurses, Contemporary, General, Romance, Fiction
ISBN: 9780373242153
Google: IDafMNflacMC
Amazon: 0373242158
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 1998-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

Thursday night after work, Lee paid a short visit to Lenora and Maria Hirsch. Then she picked up some Chinese food and drove to Derek's. When she got there, she noticed his Suburban, looking like new, parked in the carport beneath the stairs.

"I see you got your wheels back," she said a few minutes later as she bustled around his kitchen getting the table set.

"Yeah." Derek sat at the table, his leg resting on a chair, watching her serve the meal. "A mechanic from the shop where I had it repaired drove it over here this morning."

She poured herself a Diet Coke. "You want a beer?"

"Sounds good. I'll get it." He started to push himself to his feet.

"Stay off that foot."

He dropped back to a sitting position, but couldn't resist arguing, "Lee, it really is getting better."

"I know. Because you've been staying off it." She returned to the fridge and found the beer. "The car looks good as new."

"It should," he said glumly. "It cost enough to fix. I can't wait to get my next insurance bill." She set his drink in front of him as he lowered his voice to a threatening growl. "And all because of a damn raccoon." An evil gleam came into his eyes. "Are you sure you won't change your mind and go get my revenge for me?"

She slid into a chair. "Forget about it."

He picked up the moo-shoo pork and poured some onto his plate. "It doesn't matter what you say, I'm still going to get that raccoon."

"Derek." She looked pleadingly across the table at him. "Can we talk about something else. Please?"

He met her eyes for a moment, then shrugged. "Fine. Tell me how you're barely managing without me at the clinic."

She launched into a report of what had happened at work. Then they talked about Lenora and Maria, who were still in the first tough stages of making a new life.

"Lenora says her husband—Otto's his name—tracked her down, at the shelter."

"Was he violent?"

"No, he's apparently in a remorseful phase right now. He cried and begged her to come back to him. He swore it would never happen again."

"Did she believe him?"

"I think she really wished she could. But she's staying where she is."

"That's good, don't you think?"

"I do. And she's really working hard to make a new life. The people at the shelter helped her sign on for a job-training program. She starts this coming Monday, learning to be a supermarket checker at Superserve-Mart—the one just around the corner from Memorial."

"So things are improving for her, then?"

Lee nodded. "And because of the day care program at the shelter, she'll be able to leave Maria in good hands while she's on the job." Lee smiled to herself. "Lenora even suggested that the two of us might go out to lunch sometime, since the store is so close to the clinic." Her smile faded. "It's too bad she's so terrified of her husband. She says all his tears and apologies mean nothing, that he always feels bad about what he's done—for a while.

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