Harlequin Medical Romance February 2019 - Box Set 1 of 2 by Marion Lennox Karin Baine Susan Carlisle

Author:Marion Lennox, Karin Baine, Susan Carlisle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-31T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOUR

A DDIE SPENT THE next few days catching up on work. The hospital had managed to get a locum while she’d been away but there’d been little follow-up with patients with long-term concerns. There were pap-smear reminders, follow-ups with gynae, making sure pre-term mums were up to date with what they needed. She settled into her office and worked methodically through her files.

Her life settled into some sort of order. With the addition of her puppy.

Daisy was like a battery-driven toy without an off switch. She woke at dawn, full on, tearing around the doctors’ house, chewing socks, chair legs, toes, anything she could get her teeth into before Addie did her regular lurch to save whatever precious thing she was trying to devour.

Every morning she pleaded to be allowed into Noah’s room, but even if Addie had allowed it, by dawn Noah was out. He’d kayak or maybe run. The first morning after her arrival, when she took Daisy outside, she saw him down on the beach. He was running hard, almost as if he was exorcising demons.

She wondered about him. She knew so little.

He’d been Gavin’s boss. In truth she’d been surprised when Gav had asked him to be best man as they hadn’t seemed close, but then Gav had been a bit of a loner. Or she’d thought he was. It turned out there’d been a whole other side…

Whatever, thinking about Noah…

She knew he’d been married. She’d known Rebecca, but where was his wife now? He was no longer wearing a ring but surely the grapevine would have known if she’d died. Rebecca had been in a wheelchair but that was down to being injured in a past car accident. Nothing presently life-threatening.

So where was she now? It wasn’t the sort of question she could easily ask. Excuse me, but what have you done with your wife?

And it was none of her business.

Their routine settled. Every morning Addie played with the pup in the back yard. By the time Noah returned from his run, Daisy was tiring. Noah sat at the kitchen table and ate cereal while Daisy snuggled onto his knee.

And every morning Addie thought… A guy who’d just run… Who’d showered and was still damp but looked…who looked…

Yeah, there was a route she wasn’t taking. He was none of her business.

After breakfast she scooped Daisy up and headed over to the hospital. Daisy slept in her office, and when she woke she’d let her out onto the veranda.

There was ‘stuff’ happening on the veranda. The oldies were building a ‘playpen’, with wide gates and a ramp down from the veranda with wheelchair access. They were wrangling Daisy as they worked. Until the playpen was built Daisy still needed to be on a leash but they were having fun, being busy, being happy…

Sometimes Noah was out there, in breaks in his surgery, popping out to check that all was well.

To be happy, too?

It might be none of her business but the questions still came at her.

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