From Doctor to Daddy by Becky Wicks

Author:Becky Wicks
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-01-07T15:30:49+00:00

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Sara pulled on jeans and a red cardigan, the warmest things she had with her for a Caribbean cruise. She packed an Ocean Dream backpack with clothing for the night and made her way to the deck. The beating of her heart was the loudest thing in her head, but she heard Fraser before she saw him.

‘Out of the way please!’

He was making his way over to her quickly. His broad shoulders were highlighted by the ship’s lights, which were also shining on Conor, lighting the scene of the emergency for the helicopter. It was controlled chaos.

The bright yellow bulk of the medevac was a whizzing beacon in the sky. It couldn’t have been too far away when they called, thank goodness. Sara felt angsty for a million reasons. And she couldn’t see Esme yet.

‘You all set?’ Fraser stopped in front of her, his sneakers almost touching her black flats. ‘Are you OK with this?’ His hair was wilder than ever in the wind. His white coat was thrashing about his frame. He leaned in closer, speaking over the noise. ‘This is about as exciting as these cruises get, Cohen.’

‘You’re telling me.’

‘You’ll be fine.’

His fingers were twitching at his sides, as if he too was finding it hard to resist reaching out to her before she was hoisted into the sky.

‘I’ll meet you at the hospital as soon as I can.’

‘I’ll take care of things,’ she said, pulling her cardigan round her tighter as the helicopter inched ever closer overhead. ‘Where’s Esme?’

Fraser was being called on the radio. From the corner of her eye she registered the arguing couple again. The black-haired girl was shoving Mr Ponytail’s chest with her palms, angry at him about something as usual.

She should probably talk to that girl at some point, she decided. But she couldn’t think about that now.

‘Mummy!’ Esme was rushing at her from Jess’s side, running across the deck in her pink pyjamas. ‘Mummy are you really going up in the ’copter?’

Sara reached for her, scooped her up into her arms, breathed in the scent of her warm hair. ‘Someone is very sick,’ she said. ‘I have to go with him to the hospital. I need you to be brave and do what Jess tells you, OK?’

‘Can I come?’ Esme asked in a small voice as she put her down.

Fraser crouched down to Esme as the wind whipped at their clothes. ‘This is something Mummy has to do for work. She has to go and be a superhero—is that all right with you?’

Esme studied him. ‘Yes...’ she said cautiously, after a moment.

Renee was with Conor, talking over what was happening and what was about to happen with his family as the staff prepared a special stretcher for the airlift.

Sara would have to be raised along with him; there was no way the helicopter was landing on the deck. So surreal.

Fraser caught her bag as it threatened to blow from her shoulder. The rotor blades were drowning their voices already.

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