Her Lawman on Call by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella [Ferrarella, Marie]
Format: mobi
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2007-06-22T05:00:00+00:00

Sasha had just finished looking in on her newest patient. Carol Smith was an eighteen-year-old unmarried first-time mom who would have had her baby in an alley if Sasha hadn’t spotted her less than an hour ago. She’d brought the girl into the hospital just as her contractions were coming less than two minutes apart.

Carol had no insurance, but PM never turned anyone away. The patients who ultimately couldn’t pay their hospital bills provided PM with their tax write-offs at the end of the fiscal year. They also provided the hospital with an opportunity to do good works.

Carol’s less-than-savory boyfriend, someone she called Duane, had tagged along for the delivery. Carol had a death grip on his hand for the first half of her ordeal. Duane told anyone within hearing range that he wasn’t the baby’s father.

What he was, it became painfully clear just a little while later, as Carol was being taken into recovery, was a junkie. A junkie who was looking to score something. Anything.

With the cleverness that desperation brings, Duane had managed to break into the supply room where the medicines were kept.

Returning from recovery, Sasha was looking for him when she saw Duane trying to sneak out of the room, clutching his jacket to him as if he were smuggling a kitten off the premises.

There were no kittens in the hospital—but there were a lot of valuable things stored in the supply room. Suspicious, Sasha had called out to him. Duane broke into a run immediately. She quickly called for security even as she started running after Duane herself. She’d been the one to bring Carol into the hospital, in her mind that made her responsible for the theft.

Looking at the detective’s arm and what was leaking through his clenched fingers, Sasha felt even more responsible for the domino effect her one act of charity had brought about.

“Detective, you’re bleeding,” she said, horrified.

Tony looked down at his arm. The leather was slashed in two places. “Damn kid ruined my new jacket,” he complained heatedly.

Sasha took charge. “Never mind the jacket, he could have ruined you.” If there was anger in her voice, it was directed at herself. “Take it off, Detective,” she instructed.

He looked at her, mildly amused. “I don’t know if we know each other well enough for that, Doc,” he deadpanned. The older of the two guards chuckled.

Sasha never even cracked a smile. Her guilt ran deeper than the wound she was looking at. “Hold him for the police,” she ordered the security guards who seemed to come to attention at the command. “You—” she looked at the detective “—come with me.” She began to lead the way into the E.R.

“You get your medical degree using the G.I. bill?” he asked, following her into the depths of the E.R. When he caught a half-quizzical look from her, he added, “You give orders like a marine.”

“Only when I’m met with resistance,” she tossed over her shoulder. Waving to a nurse at the nurses’ station, she called out, “Eileen, I need a free bed.

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