Harlequin Special Edition October 2021--Box Set 1 of 2 by Allison Leigh

Author:Allison Leigh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Olivia had just come from an emergency on the unit Saturday—not Baby V, but still one that she’d managed to treat with some measure of success—when her phone rang. The small sleeping room attached to her office, large enough only for the twin bed and small nightstand it held, beckoned, but she grabbed the phone out of her pocket immediately. She was on call.

It wasn’t her hospital phone ringing. Reaching into her other pocket, she grabbed her personal cell quickly, as though the ringing would disturb someone. Heart in her throat, she checked to see if Beth was calling. If there’d been some kind of emergency.

When she saw Martin’s ID, she knew she had to calm down. It wasn’t fair to anyone, not herself, the baby, Beth or any of her patients, for her to overreact to stimuli for the next nine months. Not that her patients were suffering. Or would suffer. When she was with a patient it was like she was a different person. Better than herself. More capable. That sense of superior ability was one of the reasons she loved her job. It was like every time she held another person’s life in her hands, she knew she could handle the job.

She had to find a way to bring that same sense of confidence into her personal life. Had to assume that everything was going to be fine. And to know that she only had to deal with bad news if it happened, and when it happened—just as she counseled her families.

Telling and doing were so not at all the same thing.

“Hello?” She answered on the fifth ring, slipping out of her flats. The scrubs would eventually go in the can by the door. A cupboard next to it was filled with clean ones. A lot of hospital personnel handled their own uniforms. She had a service take care of hers.

She wished at the moment that she had someone to take care of the Martin situation for her, too. She couldn’t ask him for help in that regard—that would put expectation out there and she’d told him that he was free to be as uninvolved as he wished.

She couldn’t really talk any of it over with him, either, for the same reason. But if they didn’t talk about who he was going to be in the child’s life, or what part he wanted to play, how did she plan her future?

She’d had calls from two lawyers—his and hers—before she’d even arrived at work the previous morning because he’d already taken care of something she’d told him she’d do.

“Is this a bad time?”

After nine on a Saturday night wasn’t a good time to hear from your ex who’d just told you he never wanted to see you again and then turned around and relegated remarriage to a shelf.

“I’m at the hospital tonight,” she told him, adding, “On call,” lest he think she was in the middle of a traumatic emergency. “I’m in my office, ready to lay down and get some sleep.

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