Harlequin Medical Romance, February 2022: Box Set 1 of 2 by Ann McIntosh

Author:Ann McIntosh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

JOSH MUST HAVE been up very early. Emma hadn’t been able to sleep much, but when she went to check on the Mini the next morning he was already there, sitting on the low wall that surrounded the hotel car park, with Griff leaning against his legs. Even now, seeing him still made a lump rise into her throat.

Griff made a lunge for her, yelping excitedly and trailing the extending lead out to greet her. Emma bent down, wondering whether speaking only to Griff, the way they had at first, might work for them today as well.

‘Hi...’

His one word was clearly for her and not Griff. Josh had obviously come to the same conclusion that she had and decided to put his own feelings on hold in favour of finishing the rally.

Emma swallowed hard. ‘Hi. All set for today?’

He shook his head. ‘Not even remotely. There’s something I have to do first.’

He seemed calm and she should stay that way too. Whatever he threw at her, she wouldn’t cry, and she wouldn’t hit back at him.

‘Okay...?’

‘I want to apologise. For the things I said and the way I said them.’

Emma shrugged miserably. ‘It doesn’t matter.’

‘I called Dad last night.’ He must have seen her alarm, because he shook his head. ‘I didn’t tell him anything about what happened, that’s between you and me. I knew I’d been unfair, and wanted to know exactly what I need to apologise for.’

‘You don’t have to apologise for anything.’ Although it meant something that he had.

‘Dad told me that he’d been calling you as well, and that he’d asked you to keep him updated about your patient. And I do have something to apologise for, because I didn’t listen when you tried to explain.’

Joy was beginning to seep through her. Right to her fingertips, which were tingling with the possibility that today might bring some kind of reconciliation. Emma walked over to him, sitting down next to Josh on the wall.

‘I wasn’t really trying to explain. I was too angry.’

‘Yeah. I wasn’t really trying to listen. I was too angry.’

Emma puffed out a sigh. ‘We hurt each other, didn’t we?’

Josh shook his head slowly, as if trying to make sense of it all. ‘I was busy pretending to be one kind of person, but...when I was a kid I only had my mum. I used to make lists of people who might be there for me if something happened to her and...generally they were quite short.’

Josh and his lists. His flow charts. Emma was seeing all that in a different light, now.

‘And I was on your list, and then disappeared. I’m sorry for that.’

He smiled suddenly. ‘Sorry in an it’s-all-my-fault kind of way? Or sorry that things happened the way they did?’

‘The all-my-fault kind of sorry is tempting.’ She smiled back at him. ‘But since you mention it, I guess that I’m just sorry it happened and that you were so hurt by it. We should have talked more.’

Josh nodded. ‘We’re talking now...’

‘Yes.’ That felt good.

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