Fling with the Doc Next Door by Alison Roberts

Author:Alison Roberts
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2023-03-08T16:16:28+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

WAS HE WAITING for her to make the next move?

Ella had fully expected not to have Logan acknowledge any difference due to their relationship becoming somewhat more than simply colleagues. Certainly not at work, anyway. She’d had the impression from the moment she’d met him that he kept his distance and his private life simply that—private. He’d also made it very clear that he wouldn’t tolerate distractions of any kind so Ella would have been astonished if she’d been the recipient of meaningful glances across an operating table or patient’s bed, or an obvious increase in time together like sharing a lunch break. A fantasy rendezvous involving a lot of kissing and inappropriate touching, in his office or a secluded corner on the hospital roof, perhaps, was the stuff of television soap operas, not real life.

And that was fine by her. She was just as passionate about her career as Logan was about his and this was, after all, only the second day back at work after their very private time together on their shared day off. Like the way Ella had backed off from asking personal questions to let Logan know he could trust her, she was more than happy to give him time to realise she wasn’t going to be a distraction at work either.

She wasn’t even thinking about him, in fact, when she got paged for a consult in the emergency department, other than a brief flash of realising that the last time she’d been in this part of the hospital had been when Logan had invited her to join him for that OERT response.

‘Her name’s Beth,’ the registrar told her when she arrived. ‘She’s thirteen weeks pregnant and she’s got severe abdominal pain—right lower quadrant. She’s convinced she’s miscarrying although we’ve found a healthy heartbeat on ultrasound and there’s no blood loss. No fever, she’s tachycardic at one forty bpm, has a respiration rate of twenty-four, but she’s extremely upset. She lost her first baby at fourteen weeks.’

‘Oh, no...’ Ella’s heart immediately went out to the patient she was about to see. ‘She must be terrified.’

She was. Beth was sobbing when Ella entered the assessment. An older woman sat on a chair beside the bed, her face creased with anxiety.

‘Hi, Beth... My name’s Ella. I’m one of the obstetric consultants here at Queen’s.’ Ella grabbed a handful of tissues from a box on the bench and gave them to Beth. ‘I know how scary this is,’ she said softly. ‘But we’re going to take very good care of you, okay?’

Beth blew her nose. ‘This is my fault. I shouldn’t have come up to see Mum. But my GP said I was fine.’

‘When did you see your GP?’

‘A few days ago for the pain. He said it was probably just wind but he sent me to hospital for an ultrasound because I’d been spotting a bit before that and he knew...he knew...’

‘He knew how worried she was,’ Beth’s mother put in. ‘It’s only a year ago that Beth lost her first baby.

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