Resistance (Village Love #1) by Lillian Francis

Author:Lillian Francis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: multicultural, gay, british, interracial, village life, handyman, gardener, medical professional, village love
Publisher: Lillian Francis

Chapter Six

“Are you sure that’s wise?” Georgie cradled her mug and let the steam shroud her face. Her normally tidy ponytail seemed skewed, and several strands of blonde hair had escaped their bindings and hung around her face, dangling precariously close to her coffee.

Mal shrugged and glanced down into the murky, brown depths of his own cup of instant. Small clumps of powdered creamer clung to the walls of the mug. He grimaced at the reminder that someone had used the last of the milk and not bothered to replace it. What he’d give for a frothy cappuccino from the coffee shop in the village right about now.

The sun shone through the window of the break room. Rick would probably be working outside today, sweat staining his T-shirt, his biceps straining the material, dirt smeared up his forearms and across his forehead, the longer strands of his short hair standing in erratic, blond spikes.

“Well?”

Georgie’s verbal prod jerked him from thoughts of the village, away from Rick, and back to a shabby break room in an under-funded London hospital and muddy coffee in a chipped mug.

“Who the hell used all the milk?” Mal groused, not ready to acknowledge the question. “There was over half a pint when I made our last cup.”

“I saw someone from X-ray rooting around in here earlier. You know what thieving bastards they are if it’ll save them a trip to Tesco.” She sighed dramatically. “And you want to join them?”

Mal echoed her sigh. He loved Georgie almost as much as his own sister. They’d been friends from the moment they’d started working together, quickly elevating to the level where they could share disastrous dates and bemoan bad boyfriends. They’d both done their fair share of that in the past, until she’d met Mal’s best friend from uni at his birthday bash, and despite Asif’s family’s misgivings, had married Asif a year later.

“I’m not joining X-ray. I’ll still be doing all my normal shifts here in MRI. I just want to refresh my memory, relearn some old skills.” The excuses he had trotted out for his department head earlier didn’t wash with his best friend though.

“You’re leaving.” Georgie lifted her head and fixed him with a piercing stare.

“I’m n—” Wow! The force of her glare could cut glass. “Yes. Maybe. I’m only thinking about it,” he added as her shoulders slumped. “Hey, how often do jobs come up at the smaller hospitals? You’re stuck with me for a while yet.”

The snort that followed signalled her derision for that statement in a most unladylike manner. “So he’s finally ‘fessed up then. Acknowledged you’re his boyfriend.”

“He’s never denied it,” Mal protested. “He’s just not—”

“Kissed you in public. Held your hand in the street. Introduced you as his boyfriend. Come out as gay.”

“He does all those things.” Mal fielded another of those icy glares. “When we’re here.”

“And yet you’re thinking of chucking everything in to get a job closer to him. When he won’t even acknowledge you.”

“I appreciate that you’re only thinking of me but—”

“We hardly see you these days as it is.

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