Harlequin Medical Romance August 2018--Box Set 1 of 2 by Alison Roberts

Author:Alison Roberts
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

WHAT FOLLOWED WAS a week almost out of time. Marriage wasn’t mentioned again. It was almost as if they were afraid of it. But every night they lay in each other’s arms and knew how right it felt.

They still seemed like a tight-knit family. Toby was recovering, but Beth wanted him close. She was subdued but Toby was anything but. The little boy was a blessing, a happy bubble in the face of Beth’s confusion.

Luc was trying his best but she wouldn’t have him take more time off. ‘We’ll be right on our own, Luc. It’s enough that you’re sharing your apartment, that you’re helping at night.’

And she did need him. When he got home from work she seemed almost relieved when he took over childcare for a couple of hours. He took Toby to the beach but she didn’t come. ‘I’m tired,’ she told him, and he knew she was.

And at night…she slept in his arms, but that sleep was broken. He wasn’t supposed to know that she slipped out of bed and went out to the balcony to stare sightlessly out to sea.

Once he’d gone out to join her and she’d come in straight away. ‘I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to disturb you.’

And now… He’d come home from a routine shift and found her staring at her email.

‘Luc, the memorial service is happening next Monday at Namborra,’ she told him. ‘And I’d really like to go. For Ron especially. I was in hospital when he was buried so I couldn’t be there. But now… I need to be there for this.’

Of course she did and things cleared in Luc’s head. Yes, she was depressed, but the fault didn’t lie at his door. She’d been injured. Toby had been desperately ill. But on top of that she’d lost her best friend, her colleague. Of course she was down.

‘I don’t think I can manage…by myself,’ she said, and he thought it almost killed her to say it. The flatness…

And he knew the depression wasn’t all about shock and injury and loss of her friend. What else had she lost?

‘Of course I’ll take you…come with you.’ He changed his words but he still saw her flinch. ‘We can fly. There’s an outback health service operating from Bondi Bayside. The team heads west three days a week. They could drop us off on the way and collect us on the way back.’ He tried a smile. ‘It’s cheaper than commercial flights and if you like you can have a whole bed to lie down on. It’ll be better for your leg than sitting up.’

‘And if they need to transfer patients?’

‘Then we hang around in Namborra until Wednesday. Or take a commercial flight.’

‘I still have my apartment at Namborra.’

‘Then that’s settled. But chances are good we won’t need it. Except for a place for you to rest, he thought. She was so tired. She seemed…as if the life had been sucked out of her.

‘Thank you, Luc,’ she managed, and he hugged her.

‘Hey, my pleasure.

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