The M.D.'s Surprise Family by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella [Ferrarella, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780373246533
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2003-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

When he came down to the Intensive Care Unit later that evening to see how Blue was doing, the first person he saw was Raven. She sat on a chair beside her brother’s bed, her feet tucked up beneath her, the ends of her colorful blouse hanging down halfway to the floor. One hand was lost to his view, the other was firmly holding Blue’s, despite the fact that the boy was asleep. His small body was suspended a couple of inches above the mattress, lying in what looked like an oversize sling. It amazed him that the unnatural position didn’t have the boy fully awake and complaining.

As if pretending that he hadn’t seen her sitting there, Peter checked the chart at the foot of Blue’s bed. Flipping the metal cover open, he saw that the boy had woken up from the anesthetic but, still very groggy, had fallen asleep again almost immediately.

Good, he thought, best thing in the world for him is sleep.

Glancing farther down the page, Peter saw that nothing eventful was happening—unless he counted the way seeing Raven affected him.

But that belonged on a different chart altogether.

Flipping the lid closed, he placed the chart back on the hook. Only then did he look at Raven. “What are you doing here?”

“Holding Blue’s hand so he doesn’t get frightened when he wakes up.” To prove her point, she held up their interlocking fingers.

He moved closer to the chair. And to her. “I thought I told you to go home.”

“You did.” Her eyes bright, she made no apologies this time. “I didn’t.”

“I noticed.”

He looked disapprovingly at the chair. Her shoes were tucked in beneath it. One bare toe peeked out from beneath the yards of fabric. It raised thoughts about bare legs and bare bodies that he felt unequal to at the moment.

“How did you get them to let you drag a chair in here?” And then he fed himself his own answer. There could be only one explanation. George. The man was shameless in his pandering, he thought. “Did George—”

Raven shook her head. “Last time I saw Mr. Grissom was outside the operating room. Sonia felt sorry for me.”

The name didn’t mean anything to him right off the bat. “Sonia?”

“Sonia Jakov. The head nurse at the desk,” she added when there was no sign of recognition on his part.

As soon as she mentioned the woman’s title, he knew who she was talking about. It also made her victory that much more incredible.

Peter glanced over to where the woman, known as the Dragon Lady to the nurses who worked under her command, was sitting. And then a bit of color around her throat caught his eye. The last time he’d checked, multicolored scarves were not part of the required uniform. Sonia was wearing one of Raven’s scarves.

“Did you bribe the head nurse?” he asked to know.

“It wasn’t a bribe,” she replied patiently. “Sonia asked me if I was related to the Songbird family. I told her that my brother and I were all that was left of the Songbird family.

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