The Billionaire's Christmas Wish by Tina Beckett

Author:Tina Beckett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-09-12T15:44:31+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

MADISON STARED INTO the microscope and drew in a deep breath. Bacterial meningitis. It had taken all of five minutes to request the test be run and have a readout confirm her suspicions. She pushed back from the desk and headed out to the ICU department, where the child’s worried mom was waiting for her to put in an appearance. Hopefully they’d caught it early enough for the boy to make a complete recovery.

She saw Alice in the hallway. She was in street clothes, so she obviously wasn’t on duty today. Not that she’d expect her to be.

“What are you doing here? I thought you’d be getting ready for the wedding?”

“I’m on my way out now. I had a surgery to do.”

Leave it to the dedicated surgeon to work until the very last second.

Like Theo used to do before Hope had died?

Ugh! She needed to stop thinking about that picture. But it had haunted her day and night. Two days later, it was still frameless. She’d been so busy working that she hadn’t had time to buy a replacement frame. And knowing the picture was still lying on his desk, like an accusation, had kept her from using that couch a second time. Would Hope have considered it a betrayal that Theo had let her in to use his private office? That he’d kissed her?

Great. She was going to drive herself crazy at this rate.

Alice glanced at her face, maybe seeing something there she didn’t like. “You and Theo are still planning to come this evening, aren’t you?”

“Yes, of course. I have to go shopping for a dress in a little while but, yes.”

“Okay, great. We’ll see you there around six, then. Talk to you later.”

They said their goodbyes and Madison continued on her way, entering her patient’s room a few minutes later. Kyle Saunders was hooked up to a ventilator and the sight and sounds of the machines up by his head monitoring blood pressure and respiration had to be a heartbreaking sight for any parent.

“Any news at all?” Shirley Saunders, a single mom of two young boys, got up from her chair, her bloodshot eyes the only spot of color in an otherwise pale face.

“Yes. He has meningitis. We’re going to start an IV antibiotic and some medicines that will hopefully keep the swelling in his brain to a minimum.”

“Will he get better?”

She glanced at Kyle, whose still form was eerily silent. “Now that we have a definitive diagnosis, we’re hopeful. We’ll know soon after we start the antibiotics. Do we have your permission to treat him?”

“Of course. I’ll sign anything. Just help my son.”

Theo had said something very similar to her when she’d first arrived at the hospital. Just help my daughter.

“We’ll do our best. We have a neurologist who is going to assess him as well and see where we stand.”

Shirley clasped her hands in front of her. “Will he be like this forever?”

She assumed she meant in a coma.

“No.” She could say that

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