The Surgeon Boss's Bride by MELANIE MILBURNE

Author:MELANIE MILBURNE
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Belinda Bronson was in the cardio room when Georgie arrived so she took the treadmill next to her. ‘How’s it going, Belinda?’ she asked as she started her warm-up. ‘Is it your day off?’

‘Yep, thank God,’ the policewoman said, wiping her forehead with her wristband. ‘I’ve got four days off. I tell you, the way I’m feeling after the last few days, if I have to face another drunken, drugged-up dropout, I’ll scream.’

‘I don’t know how you do it,’ Georgie said. ‘It must be so hard dealing with violent people, not to mention being first on the scene at horrific accidents and murders.’

‘You get used to most of it after a while—sometimes unexpected things can get under your guard,’ Belinda said. ‘My mother thinks I’ve toughened up too much. She reckons I scare men off. But you have to toughen up, don’t you? You’d be the same dealing with sick people. I mean they don’t all get better, do they?’

‘No, they certainly don’t,’ Georgie agreed, thinking of Marianne Tander, who was still in a coma and unlikely to recover.

They chatted about other things for a while before Georgie decided to discuss the Tanders’ accident with her. She reasoned Belinda was a cop so Ben’s instructions to keep things quiet didn’t include talking to a member of the police force. She gave Belinda the details of the accident and the injuries the wife had sustained and expressed her own and Ben’s concerns that the left-side head injury seemed unusual in a motor vehicle accident unless air bags hadn’t been fitted to the car.

‘I’ll have a look into the accident report for you,’ Belinda said. ‘It could well have been an old-model car. If there’s anything suspicious about it the accident investigation team will get onto it pretty quickly, if they haven’t already.’

‘Thanks, Belinda,’ Georgie said, then looked down at the readout on the treadmill. ‘Gosh, I’ve been running for thirty minutes. It’s so much more fun when you’ve got someone to talk to. An MP3 player isn’t the same at all.’

‘I saw you talking to a guy last night,’ Belinda said. ‘I was in the pilates room upstairs. I’ve seen him in here before. He’s totally hot. I wouldn’t mind washing his sweaty gym socks, I can tell you.’

Georgie knew she was blushing but hoped Belinda would assume it was from the speed she had selected on the treadmill. ‘He’s actually my boss,’ she confessed.

‘Gosh, you lucky thing, you. You should see my boss. He’s fat, bald as a crystal ball and smokes like a chimney.’

Georgie laughed and reached for her water bottle. ‘You could always ask for a transfer,’ she said. ‘You might get lucky next time.’

Belinda snorted and slowed down the treadmill. ‘I’ll give you a call when I have some information for you. Have a good night, Georgie.’

Georgie lifted her hand in a wave. ‘You, too.’

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