Harlequin Medical Romance June 2016, Box Set 1 of 2 by Robin Gianna

Author:Robin Gianna
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781460398401
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

HARRIET JUST MANAGED to dodge out of the way to avoid a high-speed game of tag weaving in and out of the courtyard’s covered walkway. School was finished for the day and the casita’s dozen or so school-aged children were burning off some excess energy. She laughed with sheer delight. Matteo might be all frowny and furrowed brow around them—all of them!—but the atmosphere he fostered was definitely child friendly. She had to give him that. She swerved again, her arm getting a silky whiplash from a pair of plaits streaming behind a beautiful eight-year-old girl.

“Mind the—”

“Ow!”

Too late. Camila, in looking behind her, had done a first-class crash into one of the walkway’s columns. Harriet was by her side in an instant. Stone columns weren’t very forgiving.

“Let’s have a look, love.” Harriet swept away a thick swatch of black fringe from the little girl’s face, only just stopping herself from wincing. One fat lip, a bloody nose and a good old-fashioned shiner coming up. “I think you and I are going to have something in common!” Harriet put on a smile.

“What?” sniffled Camila.

Harriet pointed at her own fading black eye. “You’re going to get one of these!”

Camila stopped crying long enough to give Harriet a shy grin and sweep a hand across her mouth, only to discover it was covered in blood from her streaming nose. Her eyes widened in horror and the tears began anew.

“It’s all right, Camila. No—no don’t tip your head back. It makes you swallow the blood.” Harriet made her best icky face and took one of the little girl’s hands. “Can you pinch your nose or would you like me to?”

“I can do it,” Camila whimpered.

“Good girl.”

“Why don’t you vagabonds go and see if Juanita needs some help peeling vegetables?” Matteo’s voice came loud and clear from the clinic doorway. The children responded instantly. When Matteo spoke, everyone listened. Too bad he didn’t seem keen on speaking with her. Harriet’s lips pressed together as she steered Camila towards the clinic.

Matteo had been doing a most excellent job of keeping Harriet as far away as possible from him and the clinic for the past week. She’d unexpectedly been fighting some serious jet-lag and a bit of a tummy bug so didn’t mind too much. Fighting fatigue was one thing, but wrestling with her insecurities was growing more challenging...in the kitchen, the laundry, the children’s rooms, the public rooms. Anywhere but in the clinic with Matteo. “All to get you better acquainted with how things work,” he’d said. She’d kept her expression neutral with each assignment before accepting it with a smile. He’d run out of ways to keep her out of the clinic soon enough, she’d reasoned. And it looked like patience was rewarding her today.

“Mind the step.” Harriet led Camila up the wide stone slabs leading up and into the clinic.

“One bloody nose and a possible black eye coming up!”

Harriet realized she wasn’t just speaking to Matteo but a young woman as well.

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