One Night with the Doctor by Cindy Kirk

Author:Cindy Kirk
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-09-03T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

On a scale of one to ten, with ten being the best day ever, Poppy concluded Monday was destined not to rise above a two. She had a mountain of paperwork to wade through and, to top off the morning, she’d had to testify on an abuse situation involving a sixteen-month-old. By lunchtime, she was already on overload.

It didn’t help she hadn’t slept well the night before. His kiss. Her kiss. As they enjoyed a meal of chicken stir-fry, all she could think was how his mouth had felt on hers. They might have ended the night even but by the time she’d closed her bedroom door, her body had been so revved up, all she’d been able to do was lie there and think about getting naked with him.

Spontaneity, she decided, had its downside.

Although Ben had tried to be quiet this morning, she’d heard him get up before the sun rose. He was out the door before she tossed back the covers and swung her feet to the floor.

Poppy told herself she was happy he’d already left. But simply smelling the scent of his soap in the shower brought the longing flooding back. As well as a slight ache in her chest. An ache she didn’t understand and didn’t want to examine too closely.

She figured all these tangled emotions and feelings had to be the result of surging pregnancy hormones. She could only hope a walk in the fresh air over lunch would clear all thoughts of Ben—and this preoccupation with sex—from her head.

* * *

Once outside, her feet clad in sensible canvas shoes, Poppy began to walk briskly. She was making good time on her lunch break when she ran into Hailey Randall on the sidewalk outside Hill of Beans, a popular coffee shop and bistro owned by her high school classmate, Cole Lassiter.

“Poppy.” Tripp’s younger sister greeted her like a long lost friend. “Are you as desperate for a latte as I am?”

Poppy grinned. Something about the perky blonde with the wide smile always lifted her spirits. “I love a good latte.”

“Let’s get one then. Unless you have other plans?”

Poppy saw the look of hope on Hailey’s face and recalled that like her, the young woman had only recently returned to Jackson Hole. After checking the time, Poppy gestured toward the door. “Lead the way.”

They ordered then took the drinks and the salad Poppy hadn’t been able to resist to a table by the window.

Poppy stabbed a piece of endive with her fork. “How do you like being back in Jackson Hole?”

Hailey sipped her latte and heaved an appreciative sigh before responding. “I enjoyed going away to school and the year after graduation I spent working as a speech therapist in Denver. But when my dad got so sick and it looked, well, bad for him, I needed to be close.”

“How’s he doing?”

“Much better.” There was no mistaking the relief in Hailey’s voice. “A new chemo regimen ended up being an answer to our prayers.”

“Now that

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