Heatherdale's Shy Nurse (Mills & Boon Medical) by Abigail Gordon

Author:Abigail Gordon
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Mills & Boon Series
Published: 2014-04-30T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

WHEN CALLUM ARRIVED at the hospital Candace was flashing a diamond ring in front of everyone and congratulations were due. Julian had asked her to marry him and she’d accepted after a very short acquaintance, which seemed like no time at all in which to make such an important decision, but they were a pair of chancers and should be well matched.

He had to hand it to the young consultant for creating chaos. If Julian intended going back to America with Candace when her time was up in Heatherdale, Ryan would have to be on the lookout for another second-in-command now that the American doctor had found husband number two. What a contrast, though, to his own relationship with Leonie.

They were closer, though far from as close as he wanted them to be, but from now on he was going to pursue the dream of having her in his life, and if she still continued to keep him at a distance there would be some serious questions that he would need answers to.

Leonie phoned during the day to invite him to dinner with her and the children that evening and his spirits lifted. ‘Yes,’ he told her, ‘I would love to. Is there anything you would like me to bring?’

‘Just yourself,’ she said, ‘and if you could get here no later than six o’clock if possible so that the children’s meal won’t be too near their bedtime?’

‘Yes, sure,’ he agreed, and hoped that nothing would occur that would make it a promise impossible to keep, as a crisis could appear out of nowhere on the orthopaedic unit, and without Leonie there as back-up when it was over, there would be even more to concern himself about.

* * *

The day was quiet enough in Orthopaedics until the late afternoon when it took on a less calm atmosphere as A and E was suddenly filled with children who had been on a coach trip from their school when the driver had collapsed at the wheel and the vehicle had ended up in a ditch.

Most of them were unhurt but some had sustained fractures and cuts that needed attention, and as the clock climbed up to six Callum took a moment to phone Leonie with the news that he was going to be late, probably an hour or so.

‘That’s all right,’ she told him. ‘I will see to Rhianna and Martha being fed and will have my meal with you when you arrive.’

No one knew better than she did the ups and downs of orthopaedics when it came to children, unless it was Callum, and there must have been some cases he wanted to deal with himself or he would have left them to other members of the theatre staff to treat.

It was two hours later, not one, when his car pulled up in front of the yurt. The girls were asleep once more in her bed and the meal was going to be just about edible, but at least Callum was here now.

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