In the Doctor's Arms by Carol Ross

Author:Carol Ross
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-11-30T20:29:02+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

FLYNN WENT HOME, showered and changed his clothes. He had some extra time, so he swung by the hospital to check on a patient. The elderly gentleman was recovering nicely, and they chatted for a while before his daughter arrived with his grandkids. Flynn said goodbye and went downstairs to Ally’s office.

“Hey! How was the fishing trip?” she asked.

“Fantastic.” Flynn settled into his customary chair across from her desk and filled her in on the details. “Iris killed it.”

“That reminds me, don’t you have today off?”

“Yep, the next three days, but I wanted to check on a patient. I’m on my way to pick up Iris in a few minutes. We’re meeting Sonya for dinner.”

“Dinner with the ex. Iris is the best fake girlfriend ever.”

“Believe me, I know. I still can’t figure out what Sonya is up to.”

“What makes you so sure she’s up to something?”

“Now you sound like Iris.”

“Thank you. Iris is brilliant. How’s the interviewing going, by the way?”

Flynn scrubbed a frustrated hand across his jaw. “Terrible. She got a job, you know?”

Ally chuckled. “Not that interviewing, but I heard, and I’m truly happy for her. I mean the Flynn-and-Iris interview.”

At his look of confusion, she explained, “You once told me that any time you spend time with another person in a romantic way it’s like an interview for a life partner. Remember that?”

That made him smile. He’d been full of advice when Ally and Tag were dating. So easy to give when he wasn’t the one suffering in love. “In case you’ve forgotten, my romance with Iris is fake.”

“Is it?”

“I don’t want it to be. But in a normal, healthy relationship, both parties need to agree that it is, indeed, a romance.”

Ally laughed. “Well, maybe you need to push it a little.”

“What do you mean?”

Ally did her signature Mona Lisa impersonation for a few seconds before explaining. “Iris is more like her oldest brother than she realizes. She has this idea about what will make her happy and she’s so firmly on that track that she can’t see that there’s another, better track out there.”

“You know, this whole being-girlfriends thing that we do—” he gestured between them “—is a lot more fun when I’m the one giving advice.”

She chuckled. “I bet. And you don’t have to take my advice. Although, I am going to point out that one of us is now blissfully wed, while the other is still miserably single.”

“Excellent point.” Flynn laughed. “I’ve already taken advice from two extremely enthusiastic senior citizens. Why not go with something from the opposite end of the age spectrum? What do you suggest I do?”

“Make a move. A real one. Not a fake-boyfriend kiss in the middle of the dance floor. Approach her, sincerely, when it’s just the two of you and see what happens.”

Flynn gave her the truth stare. “Did you really do that with Tag?”

“Yep. Until, finally, he admitted that he had feelings for me.”

“Wow.”

Pulling one shoulder up into a shrug, she said, “I knew what I wanted, and I knew what he wanted.

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