The Doctor and the Princess by Scarlet Wilson

Author:Scarlet Wilson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

BEING A PRINCESS SUCKED.

Gabrielle didn’t want to be in a room smiling vacantly at visiting dignitaries and listening politely to their conversation. She wanted to be with the person who needed her right now.

The pain in his eyes had felt as if it had ripped her heart out of her chest. His struggle to accept he wasn’t perfect. He wasn’t the person who could do and be everything.

She didn’t want that for Sullivan. She’d never gone looking for a hero.

But Sullivan was too proud. He needed time. He needed space. She couldn’t be his doctor. She just had to be his friend.

And that was hard. She was used to fixing people.

But this wasn’t something she could fix. She couldn’t stick a plaster on his grief and magic it away.

He had to find that path himself. She only hoped he would let her walk it with him.

* * *

Sleep was becoming the invincible soldier. Too far from his grasp to really get hold of. When Arun knocked on his door after the break of day it was a welcome relief.

If he’d heard anything about last night he didn’t show it. ‘Dr Darcy, I just wondered what your plans were for the day.’

Sullivan rubbed the sleep from his eyes. He’d glanced in the mirror when he’d splashed water on his face earlier and knew they were bloodshot, ringed with black circles. He looked as if he’d gone ten rounds with a champion boxer.

The trouble was, his body felt as if he’d done ten rounds too. ‘I just planned on going to the hospital to review my patients. Nothing else. Did you have something else in mind?’

His answer came out automatically. He was a doctor. Of course he would go and review his patients. But was that really what he should be doing?

His mind had been haunted half the night with the sad expression on Gabrielle’s face as she’d walked away. She’d said she cared. Cared. It was a cryptic word.

He could have told her that he wanted to be free to love her. He could have told her that he did love her. But he didn’t want to go into this relationship damaged. He wanted to feel as if he could commit to Gabrielle. She deserved that. She deserved to have someone by her side who could support her in everything she did. Was he capable of that right now?

Last night, he’d had his first-ever panic attack when he’d came across someone in his father’s old dress uniform. It was clear he had a long way to go. Even if he was only admitting that now.

Arun was leaning against the doorjamb, giving him a cheeky kind of grin. ‘We chatted about the free clinics before in Mirinez. How would you feel about giving a helping hand today?’

His stomach did a kind of flip. He could find Gabrielle. They could talk about last night. He could sit for a few hours and re-evaluate his life. His plan. He could book a ticket home and spend some time—some real time—at the house he’d been avoiding.

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