Sheltered by Her Top-Notch Boss by Neil Joanna

Author:Neil, Joanna
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-08-17T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

ELLIE DROPPED THE letter into the wire tray. So the second meeting with Amelia Holt was to take place in another six weeks’ time. Six more weeks of waiting to find out if her career was going to be safe.

She hadn’t voiced her thoughts out loud, but James must have guessed what she was thinking.

‘Don’t let it get to you,’ he said. ‘No sensible person could see her getting anywhere with such a complaint. She’s just not thinking straight. Losing her aunt must have shaken her really badly and turned her mind.’

‘Perhaps you’re right.’ She gave a rueful smile. ‘Maybe she’ll come to her senses before too long.’

‘I’m sure she will.’

But that wouldn’t happen any time soon, Ellie reflected, if the email she’d received from Mel that morning was anything to go by. She wasn’t going to tell James about it. ‘Why don’t you face up to things and accept you were in the wrong? Why prolong the inevitable for another six weeks?’ Mel must have been informed of the date of the next meeting at the same time she had been.

The phone rang in A and E and Olivia went to answer it. ‘There’s an emergency coming in,’ she said. ‘It’s a woman complaining of chest pains and difficulty breathing.’

‘Okay. Room Two is free, so I’ll see her in there as soon as she comes in.’ Ellie left James to go and look after his own patients and went to make preparations. Then she hurried down to the ambulance bay to receive her patient.

The woman was very distressed and fearful, and Ellie hurried to reassure her. ‘We’ll take good care of you, Angela,’ she said, checking her name from the notes. ‘I’ll take you in to the examination room and then we’ll do what we can to make you feel more comfortable.’

‘Thank you.’ Angela struggled to say the words, exhausted by her struggle to get air into her lungs, and Ellie could see that she was gravely ill.

When they were in the treatment room, she gave her oxygen through a mask to help her breathing and gently questioned her about the events leading to her illness.

‘I had a...chest infection,’ Angela said in a halting voice, moving the oxygen mask briefly away from her face. ‘Everything feels...so tight in my chest. It’s such a...sharp, stabbing pain. It feels really...bad.’

‘Perhaps you’ll feel a bit better if we sit you up,’ Ellie said, noticing how the woman tried to lean forward to relieve the pain. She raised the bed head while Olivia brought more pillows to prop her up, and Angela gave a small sigh of relief as she sank back against them.

Ellie examined her, and became increasingly worried. ‘You’re feverish,’ she said. ‘I’m going to order some blood tests and a CT scan so that we can find out what’s going on in your chest. In the meantime, I’ll give you a painkiller and start you on antibiotics, because I suspect you have a nasty infection.’

Angela nodded, restless with pain and discomfort, too ill to say much more, and Ellie set about preparing the injection.

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