Surgeon Boss, Surprise Dad by Janice Lynn

Author:Janice Lynn
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Medical
ISBN: 9781408908983
Publisher: Mills & Boon
Published: 2008-09-14T14:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

IN SLOW increments Liz became aware of her surroundings. Bright lights shone above her face, making opening her eyes difficult. Or maybe it was the pounding in her head that made the slightest movement seem impossible.

Although the light gave off heat, her insides felt cold. Too cold. Almost as if she were buried in snow.

The thought filled her with panic, panic she would have thought vivid enough to push her into motion, but nothing happened. No flailing arms. No kicking. No screaming. No anything.

Summoning all her strength, she forced one eye open, then the other, and flinched from the intensity of the light shining over her.

“Liz?” her friend Mona, an ER nurse, asked. “Can you hear me, Liz?”

Of course she could hear her. She would have told her but speaking required more energy than she could find. Odd, that.

“Liz?”

Liz looked beyond Mona’s worried face to where she focused on Dr Larry Graviss’s face. The emergency room doctor’s eyes narrowed.

“Liz?” Why was he looking so intently at her? “If you can hear me, blink your eyes.”

Blink her eyes?

Why Adam’s friend would ask her to do that she couldn’t comprehend, but she’d play along with whatever game her coworkers had going. She tried to blink, but her eyes didn’t co-operate.

“Liz,” Mona said softly. “Blink your eyes, honey.”

Honey? What was with that? Her friend since nursing school never called her honey. But Mona waited patiently for an eye blink. Focusing all her energy on her eyes, Liz blinked.

“Oh, Liz.” With an emotional gasp, Mona covered her mouth with her hand. She looked ready to cry. “Thank goodness. You can hear us.”

Did they think she couldn’t? Liz wanted to look away as Dr Graviss shone a light in her eyes…almost as if he was checking her pupil reflexes.

The deep cold inside her body began to thaw, leaving her brain fuzzy. Although she was sure she meant to confront her coworkers to find out what was going on, she closed her eyes and drifted into sweet nothingness.

A nothingness where Gramps was still alive, healthy. A nothingness where Adam loved her with all his heart, and they’d be a happy family.

Adam tore into the emergency room without bothering to stop to ask where Liz was. There were only six bays in the Robertsville emergency department. He’d find her quicker than someone could tell him.

The moment he entered the emergency room, he caught sight of Mona Davenport. Mona and Liz had gone through nursing school together and the petite brunette was one of Liz’s friends. He could tell she’d been crying. The lost look on her face twisted his insides.

“Where is she?”

Mona glanced toward bay two. “You can’t go back there.”

“Why the hell not?”

Mona winced. “Dr Graviss wants to talk with you.”

All the horrible scenarios he’d envisioned during the hellish drive to the hospital washed over him anew.

“She’s dead, isn’t she?” Why else would Larry want to talk to him first? His knees wobbled beneath him, threatening to give way and dump him on the hospital floor.

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