St Piran's: Tiny Miracle Twins by Maggie Kingsley

Author:Maggie Kingsley [Kingsley, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Medical
ISBN: 978-1-4089-2457-0
Publisher: Harlequin Mills & Boon Ltd
Published: 2011-09-14T14:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

RITA was smiling. It was never a good sign when Rita smiled. Either the ward clerk had discovered a new and particularly juicy piece of gossip, or she was about to dump someone in a very large pile of manure, and, whichever it was, Brianna knew she wasn’t up for it today—she really wasn’t.

‘Something I can help you with, Rita?’ she said with an effort as the ward clerk sidled up to her, her face distinctly conspiratorial.

‘It’s about your husband, Sister Flannigan…’

Don’t go there, Rita, Brianna thought. If you value your life, don’t ask me why I’ve been living alone in Cornwall for the last two years while I have a husband in London, because, if you do, you’re dog meat.

‘What about my husband?’ she said coolly.

‘Just that it’s such very good news that he is your husband.’ Rita beamed. ‘I mean, I think we can now safely say my job is completely secure because he’d never shut down any department you worked in.’

Incredible, Brianna thought as she stared at the ward clerk. The woman was completely incredible, but she wasn’t about to let her get away with it.

‘I don’t think we can say that at all,’ she replied. ‘In fact, I can assure you my husband would never allow any personal bias to influence him.’

Rita tapped the side of her nose, and winked.

‘Of course you would have to say that, wouldn’t you, Sister, but enough said, message understood, and I won’t say another word.’

Which will be a first, Brianna thought grimly, but as Rita bustled away, her anger swiftly faded.

She had such a headache this morning, such a blinding, thumping headache. She’d scarcely slept last night, had spent every hour tossing and turning, reliving what had happened in her kitchen. At least Connor hadn’t appeared in the unit yet, and she wondered if his absence was deliberate. She wouldn’t have blamed him. She’d allowed him to kiss her, allowed him to hold her, and then she’d rejected him. Rejected him for no reason she could fathom except, perhaps, her body had been telling her that she no longer wanted him, that there was nothing left of their marriage.

‘You OK?’

She half turned to see her staff nurse, Chris, regarding her with concern, and grimaced slightly.

‘I have a thudding headache this morning,’ she replied. ‘And before you ask,’ she added, ‘I’ve taken something for it, so I can’t take anything else.’

It had been Connor who had pressed the aspirin into her hand, she remembered. He’d taken one look at her face this morning, made her breakfast, pressed the pills into her hand, then suggested she should consider taking the day off, but his solicitude had only made her feel worse.

‘I’m afraid I’m going to add to your headache,’ Chris declared. ‘Vermin’s here.’

Brianna swore under her breath.

‘If that low-life thinks he can get another interview with me—’

‘Actually, he wants to speak to Mr Brooke, though why he thinks our consultant will be able to give him any more information than you did is anyone’s guess.

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