Harlequin Medical Romance February 2016, Box Set 1 of 2 by Amy Ruttan

Author:Amy Ruttan
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781459296091
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

AS HE’D MENTIONED, Keanu was off duty, and Anahera and an aide Caroline didn’t know were working in the hospital when Caroline arrived the next morning.

‘Sam’s in his office,’ Anahera told her. ‘And Hettie says she’s taking a day off, which she should, but I bet she’s doing paperwork in her little villa—she finds it hard to stop, although she does love exploring the island, swimming in the lagoon and climbing around the waterfall. She has a true passion for this place.’

‘And you?’ Caroline asked, glad to have an opportunity to chat with Anahera even if they were only counting drugs in the dangerous drugs cabinet.

Anahera didn’t answer for a moment, then, to Caroline’s surprise, she said, ‘Well, me, I’m just glad you’ve turned up. The island is my home and I’m happy here with Hana, but since Keanu’s arrival, Mum’s been trying to push us both together.’

‘Not interested?’ Caroline said as casually as she could.

‘Once bitten, twice shy,’ Anahera answered obliquely. ‘Not that being interested in Keanu would do me any good. Even Mum’s realised how he is around you.’

Caroline felt heat in her cheeks.

‘It’s just because we’ve always known each other,’ she said, then realised how lame she’d sounded.

The drugs all counted and checked off on the list taped on the cabinet door, the pair of them walked through the hospital.

‘Do you want to change the dressings on the coral cuts while I do some bloods?’

It was good to be doing routine nursing work and now they’d accepted her, the lads with the coral cuts were fun. She took off the old dressings, cleaned the wounds, which were looking good, applied antibiotic ointment and covered them again.

By the next day, she guessed, they’d be able to go home.

She and Anahera had a coffee in the kitchen with a slice of extremely good hummingbird cake, and were just finishing it when Keanu appeared.

‘Can you come down to the airstrip?’ he asked, bypassing any politeness. ‘There’s an emergency call-out to Atangi. Hettie’s done two flights the last two days so Sam suggested you come along to see what we do.’

You’ll be okay, just don’t touch him more than necessary, the sane voice in her head said firmly, but the professional part of her mind was focussed firmly on what lay ahead.

‘What kind of an emergency?’ she asked.

Keanu was hurrying beside her now, long strides eating up the ground.

‘Pregnant woman, thirty weeks, having severe cramps.’

He paused—both feet and words—and turned to look at Caroline.

‘We’ll see how she is when we get there, maybe just bring her back here. Atangi’s a good clinic for you to see first, as it has a fairly well-equipped and stocked operating theatre. Before the hospital was built, the flying doctors used it for their emergency visits.’

‘Thirty weeks, so we’ll take a humidicrib and resus gear?’

‘Already in the chopper.’

They’d reached the airstrip, where Sam was talking to Jack.

‘You’re okay to do this?’ Sam asked, looking at Caroline.

‘Very okay,’ Caroline assured him, not adding that she was actually excited at the thought of going to Atangi after so long a time.

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